This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to explore non-equilibrium superconductivity using terahertz spectroscopic techniques at New York University (NYU). The $113,691 award, which runs from March 2025 through February 2030, aims to develop innovative ultrafast spectroscopic methods to probe collective excitations and manipulate the phase coherence and topology of superconducting...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 CAREER grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to support theoretical research and educational activities in the rapidly evolving field of quantum materials. The project, funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, aims to study how the quantum geometry of electron wavefunctions affects the collective properties of electrons in both clean and disordered quantum...
This $170,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by professors at the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY) and Lehman College of CUNY. The research project aims to advance the understanding of fundamental physical concepts such as quantum entanglement and the relationship between gravity and the curvature of space-time. Specific areas of focus include...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Berkeley to develop and harness quasi-one-dimensional topological materials for novel electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functionalities. The project aims to overcome current limitations of topological insulators by focusing on quasi-1D materials, which have the potential to enable new...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $500,000 in funding to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for theoretical and computational research and education in solid state physics and materials science. The key objectives are to use quantum theory, high-performance computing, and new concepts like topology to explain and predict the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Materials Research, awarded a $392,601 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant supports research under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, which aims to promote progress in the mathematical and physical sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. The grant enables UC Berkeley to investigate the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $260,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The 5-year grant, awarded on April 1, 2025, will support research to explore the profound implications of band topology on strong interactions in complex material systems, with a particular emphasis on two-dimensional moiré platforms. The key objectives include investigating the influence of quantum geometry...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $436,585 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical and computational research on novel phenomena in electronic insulators and related quantum Hall systems from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. Specifically, the award will fund the development of new theoretical concepts and field theoretic methods to describe strongly...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $135,545 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration, doing business as Princeton University, to conduct collaborative research on quantum criticality, localization, and dynamics in quasiperiodic systems. This research under NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to develop a general framework for exploring quantum phase...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $346,461 project grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research and education aimed at advancing simulation and computational approaches for studying the atomic and electronic structures of materials. Key focus areas include: Expanding the ability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) many-body wave function methods to describe...