This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical research and educational activities aimed at understanding topological materials. The $282,000 award to the University of Illinois will focus on addressing key issues in the field, including developing new mathematical frameworks for describing the connection between symmetry and topology in solids, and studying how electron flow and crystal...
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 $534,746 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at Binghamton to investigate the electronic properties of magnetic topological insulators. The project aims to directly visualize the distinct electronic states that occur at the surfaces, edges, and corners of these unique quantum materials using scanning tunneling microscopy. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,999 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The funding supports a collaborative research project to develop and harness quasi-one-dimensional topological materials for novel electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functionalities. The project aims to overcome key challenges in current topological insulator materials by focusing on quasi-one-dimensional...
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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program will provide $108,010 to the University of Washington to conduct research on topological phases of matter and their applications in quantum technology. The key research objectives are to: Investigate the emergence and propagation of stable currents between topologically distinct phases, including calculating their profile and speed, and deriving effective equations for their...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $164,754 to the University of Cincinnati to investigate anisotropic restrictions on charge carrier motion in topological materials. The goal is to gain a fundamental understanding of the properties of topological materials, which could ultimately enable a new class of efficient energy conversion devices. The project uses magneto-thermoelectric transport as a probe to study...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $680,000 Project Grant to Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2025. The grant supports research titled "Probing Exotic Phases of Ultra High Mobility Two-Dimensional Electrons" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through...
This $270,457 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical research on topological quantum matter and crystalline symmetry. The project aims to: 1) extend theories of two-dimensional strongly interacting crystalline topological phases, 2) perform numerical calculations to understand the emergence of crystalline symmetry-protected topological invariants and their physical properties, and 3) develop methods...