This $296,555 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of reduced basis enhancements for neural networks and their application to quantum materials simulation. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will combine traditional reduced basis methods with deep learning techniques to build an analysis-driven computational emulator for parameterized partial differential equations....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $436,585 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical and computational research on novel phenomena in electronic insulators and related quantum Hall systems from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund the development of new theoretical concepts and field theoretic methods to describe strongly...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $720,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research using ultrafast optical and electron probes to investigate the highly unconventional phase diagram of a new class of superconducting transition-metal kagome compounds. Specifically, the grant will support experiments using static and time-resolved Kerr rotation microscopy to...
This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research on charge and heat transport in quantum electronic systems, focusing on novel two-dimensional materials, nanostructures, and superconducting devices. The research aims to investigate nonreciprocal transport phenomena, including the superconducting diode effect and nonreciprocal thermoelectric effects, with the potential to bring...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study superconductivity in two-dimensional (2D) materials. The key objectives are to investigate 1) kinetic inductance and pairing symmetries in "moiré" superconductors, 2) quasiparticle dynamics in 2D superconductors, 3) quasiparticle blocking using tunable 2D...
This $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and education to examine superconductivity in the strong coupling regime. The principal investigator and graduate students will focus on several fundamental issues related to quantum-critical metals, including understanding the competition between fermionic incoherence and Cooper pairing, the emergence of dynamical vortices, and the...
This $279,918 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical and computational research at the University of Florida (UF) on the physics of strongly correlated electron systems, including cuprate and iron-based superconductors. The key research aims are to explore how disorder and impurities impact the emergence of novel electronic phases and superconductivity in these quantum materials. Specific projects...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $500,000 in funding to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for theoretical and computational research and education in solid state physics and materials science. The key objectives are to use quantum theory, high-performance computing, and new concepts like topology to explain and predict the...
This $384,772 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental theoretical research and education on transport and thermodynamics in two key disordered electron systems: the disordered electron liquid near the metal-insulator transition, and disordered quantum critical metals. The project aims to derive refined theoretical predictions for charge and heat transport in these complex electron...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds research to investigate collective quantum behavior of electrons at extremely low density. The $543,476 award to Montana State University is for a 3-year project from August 2024 to July 2027. Key objectives include studying the transition between metallic/superconducting and insulating/non-superconducting states in quasi-one-dimensional...