Project Grant DESC0026569

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded North Carolina State University $754,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on symmetry-protected decoherence-free molecular qudit quantum computing. Work will be performed in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a period of performance from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2027. The project grant funds basic research in quantum computing architectures that leverage molecular...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded North Carolina State University $300,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to re-envision how to perform time evolution on quantum computers for chemical applications. The project runs through August 31, 2027, with work performed in Raleigh, North Carolina. This Project Grant supports fundamental research in quantum computing methods applicable to chemistry, building on the Office of...

<p>The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded North Carolina State University $390,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support research on the interplay and entanglement of electronic and nuclear motions in light-driven photochemical and photophysical transformations. The award is a Project Grant with a period of performance through June 30, 2027, and work is performed in Raleigh, North Carolina.</p>

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded The Ohio State University $1.155 million on September 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop higher-dimensional qudits toward fault-tolerant quantum computing. Work is performed in Columbus, Ohio, with performance concluding December 31, 2027. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports basic research across the physical sciences through extramural grants to researchers at...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Northeastern University $599,361 on June 15, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop fault-tolerant quantum computing with high-rate GKP-qubit codes. The project period runs through June 14, 2027, with work performed in Boston, Massachusetts. This Project Grant funds research into error-corrected quantum computing architectures using Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubit encoding at elevated...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded The Johns Hopkins University $600,000 on June 15, 2026, for scalable approaches to quantum processor stabilization under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The project award is a Project Grant with a period of performance through June 14, 2027, and work is performed in Laurel, Maryland. The Office of Science supports fundamental scientific research across the physical sciences and energy, funding basic research...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of Colorado $1.656 million on September 1, 2026, for research on nonlinear elements for weak-link scalable superconducting qubits (NEW-LINQS) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award funds basic research in quantum technologies at the university's Boulder, Colorado campus, with work scheduled through December 31, 2027. The Office of Science funds fundamental scientific research across the...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of Pittsburgh $875,000 on September 15, 2025, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) for Quantum Networking for Efficient and Robust Distributed Services (Q-NERDS). The award, a project grant, runs through September 14, 2027, with place of performance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Office of Science funds basic research in the physical sciences across nearly 29,000 researchers at over 300...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded the University of Virginia $540,000 on June 1, 2026, as a Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a rare-earth genome for quantum materials. The award covers the period June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2027, with place of performance in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Office of Science, the nation's largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, supports fundamental...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute &amp; State University (Virginia Tech) $700,000 on August 1, 2026, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to advance quantum computation beyond qubits. The project runs through July 31, 2027, with performance based in Blacksburg, Virginia. This is a Project Grant, an assistance type supporting basic research in the physical sciences as part of the Office of Science's portfolio...