Project Grant FA95502210340

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 $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 $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 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) provides $390,000 over three years to support theoretical research on electron transport and energy relaxation in topological and superconducting materials. The key research aims include: Investigating the topological surface and bulk effects in the excitonic insulator phase of Weyl semimetals. Studying nonreciprocal electron transport in...

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 (MPS) Division provides $340,000 to Yale University over 3 years, beginning September 1, 2024. The funding will support theoretical research on electron transport in low-dimensional and mesoscopic topological solids, with a focus on developing new probes of topological superconducting phases, broadening transport theory of 2D superconductors in magnetic fields, and establishing techniques to...

This Project Grant award of $700,000 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research and educational initiatives in quantum information science and engineering (QISE) at Hunter College, in collaboration with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Maryland. The key objectives are to develop electrically tunable persistent spin helixes and understand their exchange interactions with defect spin qubits, as a novel approach for quantum...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research provides $510,414 to Northwestern University from May 15, 2023 through April 30, 2026. The funding supports research into developing analogs of topologically non-trivial crystals using superconducting hybrid devices, with the goal of studying signatures of non-trivial topology. Specifically, the award will fabricate devices mimicking higher dimensional crystal structures by placing superconductors in contact...

The National Science Foundation awarded Qcml Labs LLC a $296,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop room temperature implementations of quantum algorithms using spintronics technology. The one-year award period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022 and will support Qcml Labs' efforts to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies. Specifically, the company will...

This $475,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support theoretical research and education on the physics of strongly correlated quantum materials at William Marsh Rice University from September 2022 through August 2025. Specifically, the Principal Investigator will apply and develop theoretical methods to study quantum criticality in heavy fermion systems, novel phases that emerge near quantum critical points such as candidate...