The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded Purdue University $240,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) for the project "Collective Atom Interaction with Photons" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This Project Grant will support research examining the interaction between collections of atoms and photons. As part of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program's goal of strengthening the nation's...
This Project Grant award of $430,309 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Purdue University to study novel out-of-equilibrium quantum dynamics in ultracold atomic gases. The key goals are to explore instability-induced quantum dynamics, including investigating quantum many-body breathers, a one-dimensional Bose gas phase transition, and quantum entanglement generation, as well as observing supersonic turbulence...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $423,422 to Purdue University to conduct research on few-body quantum systems and interactions. The key focus areas include: Developing novel techniques to model and predict the behavior, energy level structure, and reaction rates of 3-body, 4-body, and 5-body quantum systems, which can support ongoing efforts in quantum information science. This includes...
Purdue University was awarded a $239,984 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on September 15, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Under this award, Purdue University researchers will study scattering, reactions, and quantum many-body states in ultracold molecules. They will leverage recent...
This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics supports fundamental research and graduate student training in the frontiers of cold atom theory and ultracold gases. The three-year award, effective August 1, 2024, is designed to expand the range of quantum mechanics that can be studied through cold gas experiments, with the goal of applying this knowledge to develop new quantum materials and technologies. The research program, organized around...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $239,999 to George Mason University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on ultracold atoms in optical tweezer arrays. The research aims to develop novel numerical algorithms to understand the correlations and dynamics of interacting atoms in these arrays, with the goal of realizing new correlated quantum phases and generating entangled states for quantum information applications....
This $428,793 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research conducted by The Leland Stanford Junior University to develop programmable quantum simulation and computation capabilities using cold atoms coupled to optical resonators. The key objectives are to explore frustration and topology in programmable spin models, enable measurement-based quantum computation and state preparation, and access...
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)...
This Project Grant award, totaling $298,778.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The funding supports research at the University of Colorado to explore the physics of ultracold atomic and molecular gases, which can exhibit novel behaviors like anisotropic fluid dynamics and complex collision dynamics. Specifically, the research aims to develop and solve the equations of fluid motion for an...
This three-year, $354,239 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical research at Purdue University to advance understanding of universal few-body quantum systems and interactions. Specifically, the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant will develop quantitative descriptions of three to five particle systems, such as atoms, molecules, nucleons or quarks, to extract new insights into universal behavior and predict phenomena. The effort will apply computational methods like...