This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $792,705 to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The project aims to establish a comprehensive Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) program at UTC, focusing on research, education, workforce development, and community engagement in quantum technologies. The key products and services to be...
This $136,448 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Arizona State University (ASU) to develop a distributed quantum sensing network. The project aims to achieve sub-shot-noise-limited sensing on a commercial metro-scale quantum network using continuous-variable entanglement and deep learning techniques for noise suppression. The research will construct a tabletop entangled network using two-mode squeezed states and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $3,500,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) to establish the UTC Quantum Center (UTCQC). The funding will be used to advance distributed quantum sensing and access to quantum computing cloud environments, integrate experiential learning in quantum information science and engineering (QISE), and develop quantum workforce...
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 $3 million National Science Foundation Project Grant will support the Quantum Networks Training and Research Alliance in the Southeast, a collaboration between the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The grant will fund research and training in quantum information science and engineering, a priority interdisciplinary field under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). Specifically, the grant will provide $2.9 million over five years to establish the...
This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is focused on enabling the development of a distributed quantum network infrastructure. The key objectives are to: (i) develop new algorithms and protocols for efficient and fair sharing of the quantum network among users, and (ii) devise strategies to protect the network against environmental noise and loss. The research aims...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of a new hybrid continuous-discrete variable quantum network architecture and associated models, algorithms, and protocols. The key objectives are to enable high-rate, high-fidelity distribution of quantum entanglement resources for quantum computing, sensing, and communication applications. The 3-year...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), funds research to enable the development of a distributed quantum network infrastructure. The key objectives are to: (i) develop algorithms and protocols for efficient and fair sharing of the quantum network among users; and (ii) devise strategies to protect the network against environmental noise and loss. The award...
This $1,550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of networked quantum sensor systems for a range of scientific and technological applications. The "QUSEC-TAQS: Quantum Sensor Networks for Metrology, Chemistry and Astrophysics" project aims to advance theoretical concepts, conduct proof-of-principle experiments, and adapt quantum sensing approaches to different platforms and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $199,637.00 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, aims to enhance the robustness and efficiency of quantum computing hardware and applications. The key objectives are to: 1) Apply machine learning techniques to extract useful information from the noisy output of quantum computers, enabling their practical use despite hardware limitations, and 2) Identify...
This $447,621 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on developing sub-shot-noise-limited distributed quantum sensing capabilities on a commercial metro-scale quantum network. The project explores using continuous-variable entanglement and deep learning techniques to enhance the precision of environmental measurements, such as temperature shifts, pollution levels, and vibrations, across large areas. By testing this approach on a real-world fiber-optic network in Chattanooga, the research aims to demonstrate how quantum sensing can transition from laboratory experiments to practical, everyday applications. No sub-awards are planned under this grant, which has an award date of June 1, 2025 and a completion date of May 31, 2028.