Project Grant DESC0025632

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $729,992 to Penn State University to explore emergent magnetic topological states in three-dimensional magnetic topological insulator multilayers. The researchers will employ magnetic topological insulators as primary building blocks to construct heterostructure multilayers and investigate the resulting quantum phenomena. Combining experimental probes with theoretical modeling...

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 Project Grant award of $307,887 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will enable the University of California, Merced to advance the scientific understanding and technological applications of topological quantum matter at finite temperatures. The research project aims to utilize the power of quantum computers to systematically characterize the properties of topological quantum systems at finite...

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 $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research on developing second-generation "Kitaev magnets" as potential building blocks for quantum computing. The research team at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) will investigate a new family of compounds that may exhibit the necessary quantum spin liquid properties to serve as qubits for quantum computation. The project aims to...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research and education to advance the understanding of quantum geometric effects in interacting electron systems, with a focus on topological insulators. The $270,000 award, spanning from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027, will investigate the interplay of quantum geometry, band topology, and electron interactions in topological materials....

The National Science Foundation awarded a $385,878 project grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado for research titled "Topological and C*-Algebraic Quantum Matter" under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award beginning July 1, 2021 will support research into topological and operator algebraic structures in quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories. The University of Colorado will leverage its expertise in operator...

This $483,605 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research will support a collaborative research effort between the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University. The goal is to explore the unconventional magnetic properties of few-layer two-dimensional van der Waals (2D VDW) magnets, with a focus on investigating metastable magnetic phases, domain behaviors, and mechanisms underlying magnetic switching in these novel materials. The...

This $270,457 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports theoretical research on topological quantum matter and crystalline symmetry. The project aims to: 1) extend theories of two-dimensional strongly interacting crystalline topological phases, 2) perform numerical calculations to understand the emergence of crystalline symmetry-protected topological invariants and their physical properties, and 3) develop methods...

This $545,491 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research by The Pennsylvania State University on "Exploring Emergent Phenomena at the Interface of Topological Semimetals, Magnetism, and Superconductivity." The project aims to develop and study new "hybrid topological semimetal heterostructures" where the material's topological properties can be electrically tuned. Using advanced synthesis and...