Project Grant 2515064
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the development of more agile erasure recovery and repair methods for distributed storage, faster and more secure frameworks for distributed computing, and fault-tolerant quantum error correction. The research aims to build on the investigators' expertise in...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on efficient matter-based broadband photonic quantum memory. The primary objectives are to study how to build memories for short pulses of light using atoms, explore ways to improve storage duration, and investigate the quantum nature of the photons. The $796,991 award will fund research spanning fundamental theory, simulation, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $320,000 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The funding supports research to develop new methods for reliably generating, storing, and distributing entangled photons between multiple locations using quantum memory devices. This work aims to address a key challenge in building large-scale quantum systems...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, titled "A Photonic Quantum Simulator of Quantum Field Theory and Spin Physics" (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences), will fund research to develop specialized quantum computing processors, known as quantum simulators, to solve complex physics problems in quantum field theory and quantum magnetism. The $620,000 award, with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to conceptualize...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $330,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Johns Hopkins University to address the fundamental challenge of designing quantum algorithms with inherent noise robustness. The research team aims to develop a theoretical framework based on dynamical Lie algebras to characterize the propagation of noise through variational quantum algorithms (VQAs). The goal is to identify algorithmic motifs inspired...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Grant of $600,000 awarded to the University of Maryland, College Park aims to advance research on quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The project will focus on developing new methods for mitigating noise in quantum computing processes, as well as constructing and analyzing quantum LDPC codes that can support fault-tolerant quantum computations. Key anticipated outcomes include new...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to fund research on disordered quantum matter. The three-year grant, active from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will support Virginia Tech's work to develop an underlying mathematical theory to better understand the properties of materials that could play a crucial role in creating...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to Duke University for research on "Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction Beyond Foliation" from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The project aims to address the limitations of current quantum computers by improving the practical application of quantum error correction techniques. The research will focus on computational errors...
- This $450,000.00 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop a new hybrid digital-analog approach to quantum simulation. The project aims to realize effective quantum Hamiltonians involving higher-order spin interactions by interleaving digital gates with analog Hamiltonian evolution within a trapped-ion quantum processor. This hybrid technique is expected to significantly broaden...
- This Project Grant award of $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program aims to accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing. The project, awarded to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on December 15, 2024, focuses on co-designing quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes and the hardware architecture to support them, specifically targeting the trapped-ion quantum computing...
This $450,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop a new class of ultra-high-performance quantum memories. The project integrates symmetry principles into all aspects of quantum memory design and decoding through three coordinated thrusts: 1) developing capacity-achieving low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes for biased noise, 2) investigating self-correcting quantum memories by constructing stabilizer codes in three dimensions, and 3) enhancing machine learning-based quantum decoders by embedding code symmetries. The goal is to define a new paradigm for fault-tolerant quantum memory that can advance practical quantum computing and support breakthroughs in areas such as materials design, secure communication, and artificial intelligence. The award period runs from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028 and the work will be performed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $450.0k | 8/18/25 |