This Project Grant award, totaling $388,397, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of California, Irvine. The funding supports theoretical and computational research and education to advance the understanding of strongly correlated materials, such as high-temperature superconducting cuprates. Key focus areas include studying stripe order, pairing, and pseudogap behavior in cuprate models using density...
The University of California Irvine will use this $640,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct computational studies of frustrated and doped systems from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports research aimed at increasing understanding of major problems in these fields. Specifically, the university will leverage density matrix renormalization group...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $446,318 to support research on chiral interactions in superconducting-magnetic junctions. The goal is to improve interconnects between magnetic bits by exploring how chiral molecules, ferromagnets, and superconductors can be combined to manipulate and control spin transport. Key activities include investigating phase coherence using Aharonov-Bohm...
This three-year $1,121,346 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund experimental and theoretical studies of iron pnictides through zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance at George Mason University. The project aims to investigate magnetic fluctuations in iron-based superconducting materials believed to provide the "glue" binding electrons into pairs enabling superconductivity. Researchers will establish...
This $279,918 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical and computational research at the University of Florida (UF) on the physics of strongly correlated electron systems, including cuprate and iron-based superconductors. The key research aims are to explore how disorder and impurities impact the emergence of novel electronic phases and superconductivity in these quantum materials. Specific projects...
The University of California, Davis received a 5-year, $244,000 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to support theoretical research and education on quantum phases of matter in two-dimensional materials, with a focus on superconductivity and the interplay of disorder and criticality. The project aims to: 1) develop a unified understanding of superconducting graphene systems, and 2) characterize quantum phase transitions...
The University of California, San Diego was awarded a $413,262 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support collaborative research to engineer, image, and control three-dimensional topological magnetic materials from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems through support of research...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049, supports theoretical and computational research and education to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of first-principles quantum mechanical simulations for studying the electronic structure of materials. The $220,991 award aims to develop innovative machine learning-based approximations to the exact functional within density functional theory, which is critical for...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $479,313 to the University of California, Davis from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The grant supports research into quantum criticality in correlated electron materials through controlled nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on select materials. Key objectives include developing a deeper understanding of strongly...
This $499,995 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Arizona State University's Division (doing business as Orspa) is funding a collaborative research project to accelerate the discovery of new superconducting materials. The research team, which includes experts in materials synthesis, local probes, and computation, aims to exploit the characteristics of known copper- and iron-based superconductors to design and...