Project Grant 2443396
- 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 Project Grant award, titled "CAREER: PROBING TERAHERTZ-DRIVEN NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHENOMENA IN SUPERCONDUCTORS," was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049). The $113,691 award supports research by New York University (NYU) to investigate light-driven non-equilibrium dynamics in superconductors using terahertz frequency excitation. The project aims to advance the fundamental understanding of...
- This $746,200 Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of South Carolina. The project aims to experimentally investigate the physical properties of unconventional superconductors to expose new phases and identify signatures of superconducting pairing symmetries. The research team will utilize second harmonic generation, a nonlinear optical measurement method highly...
- This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research on charge and heat transport in quantum electronic systems. The research focuses on novel two-dimensional materials, nanostructures, and superconducting devices, investigating nonreciprocal transport phenomena and the superconducting diode effect, which could lead to new functionalities in quantum technologies. The award also...
- This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund research and education focused on the study of novel materials with strong interactions between particles. The research aims to develop new theoretical tools to better understand and predict the unusual behaviors of strongly interacting metals, which exhibit phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity that challenge current theories....
- 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...
- This Project Grant award of $581,809.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research on epitaxial engineering of layered magnetic pnictides at the University of Notre Dame. The key objectives are to design, synthesize, and study a new class of topological materials that leverage the interaction of magnetism and electrons to enable novel electrical and optical properties. This research aims to advance high-density data...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) supports research by the University of California, Berkeley to investigate unconventional superconductivity in graphene-based materials. The $303,710 award, active from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2030, focuses on developing new tools to study this novel class of superconductors and elucidate the mechanisms underlying their unconventional superconducting properties. The research...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $720,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research using ultrafast optical and electron probes to investigate the highly unconventional phase diagram of a new class of superconducting transition-metal kagome compounds. Specifically, the grant will support experiments using static and time-resolved Kerr rotation microscopy to...
This federal Project Grant award, titled "CAREER: ATOMIC-SCALE JOSEPHSON SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING OF UNCONVENTIONAL AND NON-RECIPROCAL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY", is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) grant program. The $718,755 award, commencing on September 1, 2025 and running through August 31, 2030, supports research at the University of Notre Dame investigating superconducting materials that exhibit non-reciprocal effects at the atomic scale. The project aims to provide insights into the mechanisms underlying unconventional superconductivity, with potential applications in next-generation superconducting and quantum technologies. The research activities are integrated with an educational plan focused on developing critical thinking and technical expertise across students and researchers in various disciplines. Additionally, the project includes a STEM teachers residency program and public/scientific outreach efforts to broadly disseminate the research findings and innovative curriculum materials.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $718.8k | 8/6/25 |