Project Grant 2518800
- This $563,899 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund research at the University of Virginia from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance fundamental understanding of the role and properties of crystal lattices in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials across variable length and time scales. Specifically, the researchers will...
- This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund research and education focused on the study of novel materials with strong interactions between particles. The research aims to develop new theoretical tools to better understand and predict the unusual behaviors of strongly interacting metals, which exhibit phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity that challenge current theories....
- This $405,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Florida State University (FSU) on strong-coupling phenomena at the metal-insulator transition. Over the next three years, the principal investigator will develop novel theoretical approaches to understand experimental observations of quantum materials and devices near the insulating state, which can disrupt electron motion due to...
- This $279,918 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical and computational research at the University of Florida (UF) on the physics of strongly correlated electron systems, including cuprate and iron-based superconductors. The key research aims are to explore how disorder and impurities impact the emergence of novel electronic phases and superconductivity in these quantum materials. Specific projects...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $541,779 to the University of Central Florida to conduct research on spin quantum dynamics in molecular magnets. The key products and services funded under this award include: Experimental and educational efforts to study and disseminate knowledge on the quantum magnetic properties of single-molecule magnets, which have potential applications in quantum...
- This $238,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research, education, and outreach activities focused on understanding the fundamental role of the coupling between electrons and lattice vibrations in materials. The project aims to develop advanced computational approaches to reveal the impact of electron-lattice interactions in complex, interacting-electron systems and explain phenomena observed in...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $720,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research using ultrafast optical and electron probes to investigate the highly unconventional phase diagram of a new class of superconducting transition-metal kagome compounds. Specifically, the grant will support experiments using static and time-resolved Kerr rotation microscopy to...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), funds research to investigate collective quantum behavior of electrons at extremely low density. The $543,476 award to Montana State University is for a 3-year project from August 2024 to July 2027. Key objectives include studying the transition between metallic/superconducting and insulating/non-superconducting states in quasi-one-dimensional...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will provide $288,497 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to conduct research on new phases of quantum matter. The project aims to discover and characterize novel quantum phases that emerge from the synergy of recent developments in quantum information theory and quantum many-body physics. This research has the potential to advance the understanding...
- This $359,790 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research supports theoretical and computational research at the University of Central Florida (UCF) aimed at advancing the fundamental understanding of solid-solid phase transitions. The research seeks to identify the physical principles and structural motifs controlling the kinetics of these phase transitions, and to develop a machine learning method for rapid and accurate prediction of transition...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, supports research on the "Effect of Lattice Distortion in Electronic Properties of Kagome Metals." The $355,615 award, with a period of performance from September 15, 2025 to August 31, 2028, is being provided to the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees to conduct fundamental and applied research on quantum materials and exotic quantum phenomena. Key focus areas include exploring the interplay between geometry, topology, electronic correlations, magnetism, and charge density orders in kagome lattice structures. The research activities will involve collaboration between experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics, and provide valuable training and research experience for graduate and undergraduate students in materials characterization, vacuum technology, laser and synchrotron-based spectroscopy, and ultrafast science. Outreach efforts are also planned to inspire interest in quantum materials research and showcase its potential to address global challenges related to energy, computation, and sustainability.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $355.6k | 7/29/25 |