Project Grant 2607737
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $650,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. This NSF-BSF (National Science Foundation-Binational Science Foundation) collaborative award funds research to create and detect three-dimensional (3D) cluster states of neutral atoms—a form of quantum entanglement that...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $240,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027. This award supports fundamental research investigating the quantum nature of spacetime geometry through integrated theoretical and computational advances in quantum gravity and quantum information science. The...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received $206,550 in funding under a CAREER (Faculty Early-Career Development Program) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, awarded October 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2027. This Project Grant supports theoretical research and educational initiatives focused on nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body quantum systems. The research component develops theoretical...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $416,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded September 15, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award supports theoretical and computational research to advance fundamental understanding of anyons—exotic particles that exhibit properties intermediate between fermions and bosons—within...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $259,408 Project Grant award dated August 1, 2026, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award supports a three-year research initiative through July 31, 2029, focused on nucleon tomography in quantum chromodynamics. The project delivers theoretical and computational research...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $592,663 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2029. The SPARK (Probing Atomic-Scale Quantum Light Sources in Two-Dimensional Semiconductor/Metal Hybrid Platforms) project develops materials and methodologies for generating single photons from atomic-scale defects in...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029. The award funds research to develop a systematic framework that accelerates reinforcement learning (RL) for complex systems governed by ordinary and differential-algebraic equations. The core innovation involves a novel procedure termed moment-closed differential...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Pennsylvania State University received a $111,910 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. This collaborative research initiative, conducted in partnership with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), focuses on the atoms-to-device closed-loop predictive design of electro-optic materials for...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Princeton University received a $490,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. The award supports experimental research investigating quantum-enhanced metrology using interacting spin models realized in molecular tweezer arrays. The research team will develop and demonstrate methods for...
- This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on the quantum dynamics of near-one-dimensional systems at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). The PI will develop theoretical tools to quantitatively model and analyze experiments on ultracold atomic gases confined to one dimension, with a focus on understanding the far-from-equilibrium dynamics and emergent hydrodynamic...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $545,250 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to advance experimental quantum technologies and fundamental physics research. The award, dated August 1, 2026, and completing July 31, 2029, supports research into nonequilibrium dynamics, synchronization, and relaxation in designer dipolar Rydberg atom arrays. The principal investigator and research team will utilize optical tweezer arrays of rubidium atoms excited to high-lying Rydberg levels to explore nonequilibrium quantum dynamics and develop enhanced control capabilities for multi-level Rydberg atom systems through precise microwave driving and optical addressing techniques. This research directly advances quantum information science by establishing new methodologies for manipulating complex quantum matter and controlling quantum systems with enhanced coherence and sensing capabilities. The project will generate foundational knowledge regarding thermalization and equilibration in constrained quantum systems while simultaneously developing sophisticated experimental techniques applicable to quantum computing and related quantum technologies. The award supports workforce development through training of undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in experimental quantum science and technologies, contributing to the national priority research area of quantum information science and strengthening the Nation's scientific enterprise in mathematical and physical sciences.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $545.3k | 6/29/26 |