Project Grant DESC0025176

This $531,963 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop a chemical toolbox for creating and measuring single-qubit entanglement in molecular magnetic spin states. The award, with a period of performance from September 15, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will fund a collaborative effort led by Professors David Awschalom and Giulia Galli of the...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded Northwestern University $603,682 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to develop photogenerated multi-spin systems as qubits for quantum information science applications. Professor Michael Wasielewski of Northwestern University's Department of Chemistry and his research group will work to control charge and spin transport through organic molecules, tailoring their quantum properties using...

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports Professor Tang of the University of Utah in studying novel hybrid nanostructures comprised of silicon nanocrystals (quantum dots) and organic radical compounds. The research aims to investigate these quantum bit (qubit) systems, which have potential applications for quantum information science (QIS). Specifically, the team will...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop optically active quantum bits (qubits) in silicon. The goal is to create scalable quantum devices by integrating these silicon-based qubits with nanophotonic engineering and microwave control. The research will focus on a silicon color center called the "T center" which can exhibit efficient optical...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program has awarded a $630,000 Project Grant to Professor Michael R. Wasielewski of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, funds research to develop molecular quantum bits (qubits) for quantum information science (QIS) applications. The project aims to use light to generate unpaired electron spins in molecules that...

This three-year, $330,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of a high-fidelity ternary quantum logic processor at the University of California, Berkeley. The central goal is to leverage the rich structure of superconducting circuits to create a processor utilizing a tunable coupling scheme for fast, high-fidelity two-qutrit gates. This will enable entanglement...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of California, Los Angeles a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate spin, exciton, and chemical dynamics in crystalline solids for applications in quantum information science. Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and his research group will use pulsed lasers on nano-crystals of selected ketones suspended in water to detect the absorption spectra and decay...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to explore new strategies for connecting quantum bits (qubits) based on atomic-scale defects, or color centers, in diamond. The project aims to investigate whether long-range electric interactions could serve as an alternative pathway to link qubits, which could lead to more scalable...

This $2.46 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into interconnected superconducting and color center qubits in silicon devices from September 2021 through August 2025. The University of California, Berkeley will lead efforts to design high kinetic inductance superconducting devices using disordered superconducting alloys for insensitivity to light fields and coupling microwave fields to mechanical modes....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $105,000 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop nanophotonic platforms that can probe quantum spin states in individual organic molecules at room temperature. The project, titled "NANOSCALE SPIN ENTANGLEMENT AND CHEMISTRY (NANOSPINEC)", combines expertise in nanophotonics, organic photophysics, and quantum information science to...