Project Grant FA95502210444

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Trustees of Princeton University to develop new quantum sensing tools for studying physical phenomena, structure, and composition of materials. The project, titled "QUSEC-TAQS: Nanoscale Covariance Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors," aims to use nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond as a large-scale quantum sensing platform to...

This $995,658 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to accelerate the development and adoption of quantum sensing platforms to drive advances in magnetic materials and devices. The award supports an interdisciplinary team at Case Western Reserve University that will develop a magnetic quantum sensing platform using nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond to detect magnetic waves (magnons) in novel magnetic...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $480,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop novel nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy techniques using quantum sensing technology. Specifically, the USC research team led by Susumu Takahashi is creating new approaches to high-field NMR spectroscopy that leverage nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond to dramatically...

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $780,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to the California Institute of Technology for the project "Quantum Control of Vanadium Nuclear Spin Registers Surrounding a Single Yttrium Ion in a Crystal." The funding will support research exploring and controlling the quantum interaction between a single ytterbium qubit and the nearby vanadium nuclear spins in a yttrium...

This $610,000 Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), will support experimental and theoretical research to investigate the use of quantum sensors to address unsolved mysteries in fundamental physics. The research team at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) will collaborate with researchers at Laboratoire Aime Cotton in Orsay, France to generate and study the properties of nonclassical...

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...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $723,430 supports research into coherent radiative dynamics with matter-wave quantum emitters through September 2025. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award to Stony Brook University will investigate how tunneling and arrays of quantum emitters influence the propagation of guided atomic matter waves. Specifically, the grantee will explore superradiant and subradiant dynamics, resonant scattering...

Professor Ramanathan's group at Dartmouth College was awarded a $772,936 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to develop methods for improving the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The group will work to enhance dynamic nuclear polarization signals through the use of substitutional nitrogen impurity centers in diamond, with the goals of enabling NMR studies of smaller sample volumes at the nano and microscale....

The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop energy efficient quantum control of robust spin ensemble qubits. The three-year award will support research to simulate and demonstrate highly localized control of qubits using nanomagnets driven by electric fields at spin qubit Larmor frequencies. This aims to implement single-qubit quantum gates with high fidelities...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $417,985 CAREER grant to Northwestern University to study novel solid-state quantum photonic devices and take initial steps towards multiplexed quantum communication. The grant, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the principal investigator's research on nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic fields with engineered materials like lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) for quantum network applications. Key focus...