Project Grant DESC0025245

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) in the amount of $306,110 supports research and workforce development activities at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) focused on light-controlled magnetism in quantum materials. The project combines experimental work at New Mexico Tech and Georgetown University with theoretical modeling at the University of Chile to investigate light-induced...

This five-year, $312,500 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the expansion of open-source quantum dynamics and spectroscopy software. Specifically, Professor Li and team will enhance the Chronus Quantum platform to enable time-resolved spectroscopy capabilities for quantum chemistry calculations. This will include novel computational methods to simulate chemical processes exhibiting quantum...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support research to develop a new terahertz spectroscopy tool to study quantum phenomena in advanced "moiré" materials. The $554,000 award to the Trustees of Columbia University, awarded on June 1, 2025, will fund the development of this in-situ terahertz measurement technique that can directly probe the low-energy excitations in these unique quantum phases....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program, CFDA 47.083, provides $539,000 to develop a Rydberg tweezer quantum processor with real-time optical cavity readout at the University of California, Berkeley from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The award will enable measurements of a portion of a complex quantum system while the remainder continues to evolve coherently. This will be realized using arrays of optically trapped single atoms with...

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...

This three-year, $485,084 National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research Project Grant will support research into emergent quantum phenomena through muon spin relaxation, neutron scattering, and scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. Led by researchers at Columbia University, the project aims to elucidate charge-spin interplays in unconventional superconductors and Mott transition systems through measurements of superfluid density, dynamic spin fluctuations, order parameters, and...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $259,999, will support research into dynamical evolutions in complex, high-dimensional energy landscapes. Specifically, the awardee, Northwestern University, will investigate Markov chain dynamics arising from spin systems in statistical physics, which serve as prototypical examples for protein folding, evolutionary dynamics, out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, and neural...

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will fund research by Duke University on "Magnetic Resonances in Nonlinear Dielectric Nanostructures: New Light-Matter Interactions and Machine Learning Enhanced Design." The project aims to discover new light-matter interactions originating from the effect of magnetic field enhancement in low-loss...

This three-year, $284,063 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research into advances in quantum control and noise mitigation using a highly accurate quantum testbed. The University of Arizona, operating through the Arizona Board of Regents, will lead collaborative experimental and theoretical work to develop new techniques for quantum control and shielding quantum devices from noise. Researchers will employ a small,...