Project Grant 2513310
- This $610,000 Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), will support experimental and theoretical research to investigate the use of quantum sensors to address unsolved mysteries in fundamental physics. The research team at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) will collaborate with researchers at Laboratoire Aime Cotton in Orsay, France to generate and study the properties of nonclassical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $878,148 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from July 15, 2023 through June 30, 2026. This grant supports MIT's research in quantum optics and optomechanics, with a focus on developing quantum systems to probe fundamental quantum phenomena and enable precision quantum noise-limited measurements. Key areas of research include: 1) exploring quantum...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,069 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Rochester to develop an analog quantum simulator for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. The objective is to create a platform using semiconductor quantum dots and quantum electronic circuits that can simulate the dissipative dynamics of excitons in molecular systems, such as those found in photosynthetic complexes or Hubbard...
- 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 $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research to investigate the quantum properties of optical parametric oscillators. The goal is to determine if the standard quantum noise limit in these light sources can be surpassed, which would enable even greater precision and stability for applications like quantum networking, quantum computing, and atomic clocks. The 3-year project, running from...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $444,534 project grant to the University of Denver to develop a new sensing technique called "Quantum Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy" (QSRS). The key innovation is the use of entangled photons as the probing source, which calculations suggest can make QSRS more than a trillion times more sensitive than classical measurements. The goal is to build the first QSRS setup, test and optimize it with...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will establish a quantum-enhanced metrology testbed at Syracuse University to advance the quantum improvement of gravitational wave detectors. The primary objective is developing the technology needed to achieve a 10 decibel effective squeezing improvement to gravitational-wave interferometers, which is a critical benchmark for next-generation observatories like Cosmic...
- This federal Project Grant award for $394,980.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve the teaching and learning of quantum sensing and metrology. The award to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has three key goals: Define major ideas and learning outcomes for quantum sensing and metrology through expert interviews. Develop flexible curricular materials like lesson plans, tutorials, and homework problems aligned to the defined...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...
- This $1,998,806.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports an ambitious multi-institutional research effort to advance quantum science and engineering. The goal is to develop a new class of devices based on the emergent quantum physics of periodically driven materials, establishing a novel paradigm for Floquet-enabled quantum detection and sensing. The project aims to produce integrated sensing devices that will create a fully...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $389,845 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Rochester. The project, titled "Synthesizing Nonlinearities for Quantum Sensing in Levitated Optomechanics," aims to create a tabletop sensor that exhibits quantum-enhanced sensitivity without using fragile quantum states. The research team will leverage optical tweezers and laser-controlled nanoparticle motion to emulate quantum phenomena and develop a sensor platform that could impact various fields, such as gravitational wave detection, non-Newtonian gravity testing, and quantum wavefunction collapse models. The project will also engage high school students and undergraduates in optical physics research, while training graduate students as optical scientists. The grant was awarded on August 15, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $389.8k | 8/6/25 |