This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $580,000 in funding to Rowan University to develop comprehensive quantum methodologies for modeling and designing molecular-scale quantum sensors with ultra-high sensitivity and long-lived electronic coherence. The key objectives are to: 1) Create new time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) methods that incorporate multiconfigurational molecular electronic...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) program supports research and development of new quantum sensors to study open quantum systems. The project at The Washington University in St. Louis aims to leverage quantum entanglement to characterize the role of memory in quantum environments, develop quantum-entanglement-enhanced metrology techniques, and investigate the transition between quantum and classical...
This is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049) totaling $799,915. The project, titled "EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: INTEGRATING SINGLE MOLECULES TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS TOWARD QUANTUM DEVICES," aims to develop scalable and controllable single-molecule field effect transistors using advanced 2D materials and atomic force microscopy nanolithography techniques. The overarching goal is to create...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $597,576 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Marquette University to research quantum molecular dynamics on quantum computers. The project, titled "EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: QUANTUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS ON QUANTUM COMPUTERS," has three main thrusts: Further development and application of the Quantum Annealer Eigensolver (QAE) algorithm to calculate molecular spectra and reactivity on D-Wave quantum...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,500,571 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Bryn Mawr College, a women's liberal arts college, to establish a Research and Education Center for Quantum Materials and Sensing. The project aims to integrate resources from higher education, an existing NSF-funded Quantum Center at Johns Hopkins University, national labs, and industry to advance research in quantum materials and quantum sensing, and to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,069 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Rochester to develop an analog quantum simulator for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. The objective is to create a platform using semiconductor quantum dots and quantum electronic circuits that can simulate the dissipative dynamics of excitons in molecular systems, such as those found in photosynthetic complexes or Hubbard...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded to Kutztown University of Pennsylvania focuses on harnessing quantum effects to enhance sensing and simulation capabilities. The $180,000 award, spanning 3 years from September 2023 to August 2026, supports research on quantum correlations and dynamics within a ring-shaped lattice system. The goal is to develop highly sensitive quantum sensors for applications like metrology and control systems, as well as to create a comprehensive quantum...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,995 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to support the EXPANDQISE: TRACK 1: EDUCATION AND RESEARCH OF SYSTEM AND NETWORK SUPPORTS FOR QUANTUM CLOUD project. The award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, aims to democratize access to quantum computing resources by developing a quantum cloud framework called QCLOUD, which...
This $197,780 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel quantum magnetometer sensor based on an organic chromophore coupled with a mechanical resonator. The research aims to create an ultra-sensitive and highly efficient magnetometer sensor that can detect variations in magnetic fields through the quantum emission of a single chromophore. This work has potential applications in fields such as robotics,...