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 $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 $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...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Oregon (UO) to develop the Attosecond Synchronized Photonic Entanglement Network (ASPEN-NET), a scalable quantum networking platform. The project aims to advance quantum information science and engineering by enabling the distribution of quantum entanglement at high rates over large distances. This will support quantum...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,550,000 to Northern Arizona University to cultivate new approaches, systems, and training programs for quantum information science. The central research goals aim to prepare, control, and measure quantum states involving electronic, mechanical, microwave, and optical degrees of freedom, enabling the development of "spin-optomechanical" systems. Key milestones include...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $236,459 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The 5-year grant, running from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030, aims to develop a novel "Quantum Pulse Processing" framework to enhance the capabilities of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices and enable more efficient quantum simulations. Key research directions include...
This $140,044 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports fundamental research into quantum reservoir engineering techniques for stabilizing entanglement in dissipation-driven quantum systems. The research aims to develop a novel framework for leveraging dissipation as a resource to reliably generate desired entangled states of quantum bits (qubits), which is a critical capability for quantum information...
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 $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 demonstrate enhanced sensing of distributed phase shifts, with applications in areas like environmental monitoring and time synchronization. This work advances quantum information science and engineering by integrating machine learning with continuous-variable quantum sensing, providing a scalable framework for future quantum networking capabilities. The project period runs from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028.