This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a $425,000 research project at William Marsh Rice University to develop a solid-state quantum photon source that can generate high-performance, polarization-entangled photon pairs on demand. The goal is to create a quantum light source that meets the stringent requirements of advanced quantum algorithms and information transfer applications. The project will involve modifying the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a collaborative research project on "Designing Coherence and Entanglement in Perovskite Quantum Dot Assemblies." This 4-year project aims to understand how perovskite quantum dots can be engineered to enable efficient and coherent transport of information and energy in a wave-like manner. The...
This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop efficient sources of pure single- and multi-photon quantum states to enable new advances in quantum communication, computing, and metrology. The principal investigators at the University of Illinois plan to leverage photon-addition and photon-subtraction techniques to engineer a variety of exotic quantum states of light, like Fock states,...
This $1,200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort led by Purdue University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern California. The project aims to design a new class of quantum materials based on perovskite quantum dots that can enable efficient, wave-like transport of information and energy. Key objectives include understanding how these...
This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research by Baylor University to develop a novel method for generating quantum-entangled light. The project aims to demonstrate the modulation of an optical cavity using integrated phase change materials to produce quantum-entangled photons compatible with silicon photonics technology. This work exists at the intersection of quantum field theory, ultrafast optics, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049, provides $700,000 to Professor Hendrik Utzat at the University of California, Berkeley to advance a new form of spectroscopy to study the loss of coherence in single-photon emitters critical to quantum information science technologies. The project aims to quantify the contributions of different dephasing pathways, such as spin, charge, and atomic vibrations, and uncover...
This $140,044 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research into "Entanglement Engineering in Dissipation-Driven Quantum Systems." The goal is to develop novel quantum reservoir engineering techniques to generate stable quantum entanglement, which is critical for quantum information processing applications like quantum computing, sensing, and communication. The research aims to advance the...
This $449,999 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research led by Professor George Schatz of Northwestern University. The project is developing new theory and computational methods to characterize the interaction of classical and quantum light with molecules, with applications in photon-based quantum computing and secure communications technologies. Key...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $300,000 in funding to Purdue University to conduct research on the interaction of light with cold atom gases. The project, titled "Multiatom-Multiphoton Effects," will utilize computer simulations to understand how light simultaneously interacts with multiple cold atoms. The research aims to explore new quantum effects that arise when many atoms...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $1,715,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct research on ultrafast strong-field control of coherence and entanglement in atoms and molecules. The research focuses on investigating and controlling the rapid motion of electrons and atoms within molecules using precise external forces from high-intensity, ultrafast laser...