The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 CAREER grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support theoretical research and educational activities in the rapidly evolving field of quantum materials. The project, funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to study how the quantum geometry of electron wavefunctions affects the collective properties of electrons in both clean and disordered quantum...
This $483,605 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research will support a collaborative research effort between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University. The goal is to explore the unconventional magnetic properties of few-layer two-dimensional van der Waals (2D VDW) magnets, with a focus on investigating metastable magnetic phases, domain behaviors, and mechanisms underlying magnetic switching in these novel materials. The...
This $563,899 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research at the University of Virginia from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of the role and properties of crystal lattices in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials across variable length and time scales. Specifically, the researchers will...
This $1,400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program establishes a Quantum Materials Institute at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T). In collaboration with Montana State University and the NSF-funded Q-AMASE-I MONARK Quantum Foundry, the institute will focus on developing compact, efficient nonlinear optical systems by combining atomically-thin 2D materials and sub-wavelength flat...
This $237,167 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program supports research and educational activities aimed at understanding the quantum behavior of van der Waals (VDW) magnets. The principal investigator and their team will develop new computational methods to study light-matter interactions in VDW magnets, with the goal of advancing technologies like optoelectronics, energy harvesting, and quantum information...
The National Science Foundation awarded $479,999 to the Colorado School of Mines under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "Defect States of Silicon Allotropes for Quantum Information Science" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. This three-year Project Grant will support research into defect states of silicon allotropes for applications in quantum information science. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University to explore the novel magnetic properties of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets. The $232,786 award, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2027, aims to investigate the unconventional magnetic domains and metastable magnetic phase...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical research on understanding quantum materials and phenomena related to frustrated magnetism. George Mason University is receiving $258,480 over the period of May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2027 to advance conceptual understanding of the microscopic physics of magnetically frustrated materials through a combined effort of theoretical physics and computational...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports research at the University of California, Berkeley to study magnetism in vanadium-based intercalation compounds of transition metal dichalcogenides. The $275,000 award, spanning January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026, will fund the synthesis, structural characterization, and investigation of the physical properties of these exotic magnetic materials, which have potential applications in...