The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $382,119 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), operating as Stony Brook University, from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant will fund research on digital quantum simulations to study the ground states and dynamics of various complex quantum systems, including spin models, gauge theories, and supersymmetric systems....
This $340,000 collaborative research project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports professors at the City College of the City University of New York and Lehman College in advancing the understanding of fundamental physical phenomena like quantum entanglement and the relationship between gravity and the curvature of space and time. The research will utilize mathematical tools from geometry, abstract...
This $202,091 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research on interacting particle systems and related models in statistical mechanics. The primary awardee, Barnard College, will conduct studies focused on three main directions: the analysis of log-gases, investigations of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, and the examination of traffic models. The research aims to achieve a better understanding of the...
This $340,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical and computational research to achieve a fundamental understanding of the electronic and transport properties of condensed matter systems. The University of Massachusetts (UMass), through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, will employ advanced analytical methods like the worm algorithm and diagrammatic Monte Carlo to study...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $509,998 to support collaborative research at City College and Lehman College of the City University of New York. The research aims to advance understanding of fundamental physical phenomena, including quantum entanglement and the role of gravity and space-time curvature, through the application of new mathematical tools within quantum field theory and string...
This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund research and education focused on the study of novel materials with strong interactions between particles. The research aims to develop new theoretical tools to better understand and predict the unusual behaviors of strongly interacting metals, which exhibit phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity that challenge current theories....
This $198,463 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental research and educational initiatives conducted by Rutgers, The State University. The project aims to develop new tools and refine existing techniques to analyze the effects of interactions in three types of particle systems: interacting Bose gases, classical hard-core particle models, and interacting lattice Fermi gases. The research...
This Project Grant award, valued at $214,419 and effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028, was issued by the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049). The primary objective of this project is to develop an experimental simulation system using ultracold dipolar molecules confined in optical lattices to investigate new states of quantum matter and advance the understanding of physical processes behind...
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) was awarded a $449,997 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research on strain engineering of exciton-polaritons in two-dimensional semiconductors at the City College of New York from September 2021 through August 2024. The NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports progress in...
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...