Project Grant DESC0025316

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $150,000 aims to advance understanding of strong-field and ultrafast processes in atomic systems through theoretical and computational modeling. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award supports research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to describe interactions between intense coherent radiation and large quantum systems. Specific investigations include...

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 $626,467 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049) to Wayne State University to investigate the nonadiabaticity and tunneling delay in the process of strong-field ionization. The project, led by Professor Li, will employ a novel attoclock approach combining 3D electron-momentum imaging with ion-electron coincidence/covariance techniques, along with phase-tagged few-cycle near-infrared laser pulses....

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $493,565 awarded on July 15, 2022 will support research into coherent control and analysis of atomic multi-photon processes at the Missouri University of Science and Technology through June 30, 2025. The research aims to advance established coherent control schemes and develop new methods to manipulate electron dynamics in photo-absorption processes using lithium atoms. Investigators will shape both the microscopic properties of femtosecond laser...

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...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison $650,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop methods for accurately and efficiently incorporating nuclear quantum effects into ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Principal Investigator Dr. Yang Yang and his research group will continue developing Constrained Nuclear-Electronic Orbital Density Functional Theory and its integration with molecular...

This three-year, $354,239 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical research at Purdue University to advance understanding of universal few-body quantum systems and interactions. Specifically, the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant will develop quantitative descriptions of three to five particle systems, such as atoms, molecules, nucleons or quarks, to extract new insights into universal behavior and predict phenomena. The effort will apply computational methods like...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $423,422 to Purdue University to conduct research on few-body quantum systems and interactions. The key focus areas include: Developing novel techniques to model and predict the behavior, energy level structure, and reaction rates of 3-body, 4-body, and 5-body quantum systems, which can support ongoing efforts in quantum information science. This includes...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $300,000 in funding to Purdue University to conduct research on the interaction of light with cold atom gases. The project, titled "Multiatom-Multiphoton Effects," will utilize computer simulations to understand how light simultaneously interacts with multiple cold atoms. The research aims to explore new quantum effects that arise when many atoms...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, CFDA 47.049, provides $700,000 to Professor Hendrik Utzat at the University of California, Berkeley to advance a new form of spectroscopy to study the loss of coherence in single-photon emitters critical to quantum information science technologies. The project aims to quantify the contributions of different dephasing pathways, such as spin, charge, and atomic vibrations, and uncover...