This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $390,000 over three years to support theoretical research on electron transport and energy relaxation in topological and superconducting materials. The key research aims include: Investigating the topological surface and bulk effects in the excitonic insulator phase of Weyl semimetals. Studying nonreciprocal electron transport in...
This Project Grant award, worth $350,000.00 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. The primary focus is on investigating nonreciprocal transport phenomena and superconducting diode effects in novel two-dimensional materials, nanostructures, and superconducting devices. The research aims to advance fundamental and applied physics with...
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 $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...
Yale University was awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "EAGER: SUPER: COUPLING HIGH-ENERGY PHONONS INTO HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise and increase...
This $330,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research and education activities at Yale University aimed at developing a fundamental understanding of quantum phases of matter. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Systematic development of a theory for new types of non-local observables, called "disorder operators", that can probe the fluctuations of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $163,791 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program to the University of Wisconsin System - Madison to discover, develop, and electrostatically control connate topological superconductivity and superconducting edge states in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. The goal is to realize a connate topological superconductor, which merges superconductivity in the bulk with topologically nontrivial...
This Project Grant award of $384,772 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental theoretical research and education on transport and thermodynamics in two paradigmatic disordered electron systems: the two-dimensional electron liquid near the metal-insulator transition, and quantum critical metals. The key objectives are to: 1) Derive detailed theoretical predictions for the temperature dependence of electrical and...
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...
This $282,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports theoretical research and educational activities aimed at understanding topological materials. The project focuses on addressing two key challenges in this field: 1) developing new mathematical frameworks to describe the connection between symmetry and topology in solids, and 2) studying the hydrodynamics and response of topological crystalline insulators to defects to identify...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division provides $340,000 to Yale University over 3 years, beginning September 1, 2024. The funding will support theoretical research on electron transport in low-dimensional and mesoscopic topological solids, with a focus on developing new probes of topological superconducting phases, broadening transport theory of 2D superconductors in magnetic fields, and establishing techniques to measure electron-phonon interactions and superconducting gap structure. Graduate students will be actively involved in the research and training. The grant aims to advance fundamental understanding of quantum materials and guide the design of new superconducting devices, with potential applications in quantum computing, medical imaging, and other fields utilizing superconductivity. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.