Project Grant 2541785
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $334,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of South Carolina (USC) to develop theoretical and computational methods incorporating quantum mechanics for studying the properties and behaviors of molecular systems and nanomaterials. The project, led by Professor Sophya Garashchuk, aims to gain a fundamental understanding of chemical reactivity, charge and energy...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to Princeton University in the amount of $395,000 on September 15, 2025. This grant will support a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research collaboration led by Professor Gregory Scholes at Princeton University, along with partners from the University of Cambridge and University College London in the United Kingdom. The research team will seek to...
- The University of Southern California (USC) was awarded a $647,636 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop novel electronic structure methods for modeling spectroscopy in the core and valence domains, with a focus on free-electron states. The 3-year award, running from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to extend the theoretical toolkit for spectroscopy modeling and enable more accurate interrogation...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $1,715,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct research on ultrafast strong-field control of coherence and entanglement in atoms and molecules. The research focuses on investigating and controlling the rapid motion of electrons and atoms within molecules using precise external forces from high-intensity, ultrafast laser...
- This $300,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 15, 2023 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Southern California (USC). The grant will fund research on quantum walks and quantum cellular automata for quantum information processing. Key aspects that will be explored include: Relationships between quantum walks, relativistic quantum equations (e.g. Dirac equation), and quantum field...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $457,268 three-year Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into proton transfer reactions near electrode surfaces and their role in electrochemical processes. Dr. Jahan Dawlaty and students will use laser spectroscopies to study proton transfer in small molecules at electrode interfaces. They aim to establish design principles for increased...
- This $636,571 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research by professors Philip Bucksbaum and Mohammed Hassan of Stanford University and the University of Arizona, along with their United Kingdom collaborators. The project investigates electron-ion entanglement in the photoionization of small molecules using extremely intense laser pulses of squeezed quantum light. The researchers will detect the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The 3-year project, titled "Operational Quantum Mereology: An Information Scrambling Approach," aims to develop a unified framework for optimal selection of quantum subsystems. The technical approach will be based on the concept of "information scrambling" to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants Division under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The 3-year grant will support research on "Combinatorial Representation Theory of Quantum Groups and Coinvariant Algebras." The project aims to further develop combinatorial diagrams called "web bases" that encode the representation category of...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $510,000 Project Grant to the University of Southern California to support the development of new theoretical approaches for modeling linear and non-linear core-level spectroscopies in gas and condensed phases from May 15, 2022 to April 30, 2025. Principal Investigator Anna Krylov at the University of Southern California will utilize coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion electronic structure methods to model spectroscopic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $597,560 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Southern California (USC) for a research project titled "QUANTUM COHERENCE AND CORRELATIONS IN CONDENSED PHASE PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTION DYNAMICS". The project, led by Professor Stephen Bradforth, studies light-driven chemical reactions that generate radical ion pairs with entangled electron spin states. The research aims to develop advanced ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to understand the role of quantum entanglement in these photochemical processes. The 3-year project, running from September 2025 to August 2028, will also provide research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to contribute to the development of quantum information science and a quantum-enabled STEM workforce.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $597.6k | 9/15/25 |