This is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) totaling $799,915. The project, titled "EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: INTEGRATING SINGLE MOLECULES TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS TOWARD QUANTUM DEVICES," aims to develop scalable and controllable single-molecule field effect transistors using advanced 2D materials and atomic force microscopy nanolithography techniques. The overarching goal is to create...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 project grant to Marquette University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROBING UNDISCOVERED REACTION PATHWAYS IN THE DECOMPOSITION OF HIGHLY ENERGIZED MOLECULES: ISOMERIZATION, ROAMING, AND PROTON COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funding will allow Marquette University researchers to investigate...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $249,684 to Lewis & Clark College to develop a new experimental platform for quantum simulation of many-body spin systems. The objective is to study the behavior of quantum many-body systems, which have important applications in areas like quantum metrology and quantum computing but are difficult to simulate on classical computers. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded Marquette University a $704,147 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "Mixed Quantum/Classical Theory for the Collisional Quenching of Interstellar Complex Organic Molecules" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The grant funding will support Marquette University researchers in developing new theoretical methods to model the collisional processes that can deactivate excited...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support research into practical strategies for implementing quantum chemistry on near-term quantum computers. James Freericks of Georgetown University and Dominika Zgid of the University of Michigan will collaborate to develop hybrid quantum-classical methodologies to run important parts of calculations on noisy intermediate-scale...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $526,536 to the University of Chicago for research on novel quantum phenomena and quantum chemistry. The funded work focuses on two main areas: (1) investigating "quantum super-chemistry" involving chemical reactions at ultra-low temperatures, and (2) studying the transition between two-body pairing via the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,069 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Rochester to develop an analog quantum simulator for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. The objective is to create a platform using semiconductor quantum dots and quantum electronic circuits that can simulate the dissipative dynamics of excitons in molecular systems, such as those found in photosynthetic complexes or Hubbard...
This $350,546 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports fundamental research on quantum stereodynamics of cold molecular collisions. The project, led by researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), aims to gain a deeper understanding of atomic and molecular collision processes and explore methods to control the outcomes of chemical reactions through quantum mechanical techniques. Key focus...
This federal Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research on hybrid solid-state quantum systems that combine semiconductor spin qubits and superconducting circuits. The $799,123 award to the University of Rhode Island, with a sub-award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to advance the state of quantum information science and engineering. The key products or services to be...
This Project Grant award, valued at $376,379.00 and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research on the dynamics of few-body quantum systems. The key objectives are to develop a quantum mechanical treatment of the time evolution of small atomic and molecular systems, in order to reveal few-body phenomena and improve understanding of larger system dynamics. The research will focus on two main areas: (1)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $597,576 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Marquette University to research quantum molecular dynamics on quantum computers. The project, titled "EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: QUANTUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS ON QUANTUM COMPUTERS," has three main thrusts:
Further development and application of the Quantum Annealer Eigensolver (QAE) algorithm to calculate molecular spectra and reactivity on D-Wave quantum annealer hardware. This includes exploring methods to improve the QAE algorithm's efficiency and accuracy.
Development and application of the Quantum Differential Equation (QDE) solver to perform quantum molecular dynamics simulations on quantum annealers, with a focus on modeling molecule-surface interactions like hydrogen absorption on palladium.
Fundamental research into the quantum properties and coherent control of molecular qubits, studying phenomena like geometric phase effects, vibrational/rotational state manipulation, and energy transfer between interacting molecules.
The project involves collaboration between researchers at Marquette University and Los Alamos National Laboratory, providing research opportunities and training for undergraduate/graduate students and a postdoctoral fellow. The award period is from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026.