Project Grant FA95502410229

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support theoretical research at Louisiana State University (LSU) on novel phases of confined cold atomic gases from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research team at LSU will develop new predictions for possible collective states of trapped cold atomic gases, shedding light on emergent phenomena like superfluidity and magnetism. They will study implications of recent...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $645,309 to Northwestern University to develop techniques for precision measurements on atoms and molecules trapped within inert cryogenic crystals from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The researchers will produce the first doped cryocrystals suitable for searches beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. They will grow large inert...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to characterize recovered material from experiments that synthesized quasicrystals under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. The research aims to provide a fundamental understanding of how and when quasicrystals nucleate and grow during these transient shock events, which could lead to discoveries of novel quasicrystal-forming alloys...

This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics supports fundamental research and graduate student training in the frontiers of cold atom theory and ultracold gases. The three-year award, effective August 1, 2024, is designed to expand the range of quantum mechanics that can be studied through cold gas experiments, with the goal of applying this knowledge to develop new quantum materials and technologies. The research program, organized around...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program, CFDA 47.083, provides $539,000 to develop a Rydberg tweezer quantum processor with real-time optical cavity readout at the University of California, Berkeley from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The award will enable measurements of a portion of a complex quantum system while the remainder continues to evolve coherently. This will be realized using arrays of optically trapped single atoms with...

This $649,435 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a tabletop experiment at the University of Chicago with unprecedented sensitivity to hadronic CP violation. The experiment aims to develop a new approach using an optically-trapped, ultracold gas of the polar molecule francium-223 (223FrAg) to search for the Schiff moment of francium-223. This has the potential to increase sensitivity to nuclear charge distribution deformations by a factor of 1,000 beyond the...

The University of Massachusetts Boston was awarded a three-year $212,358 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to conduct experimental research exploring number theory concepts through cold atom systems. Specifically, the University will study the effects of engineered quantum potentials whose energy level spectra relate to sums of squares, prime numbers, and other number theory constructs. This includes analyzing resonant transition...

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. Through this 3-year grant, UCSB will conduct fundamental research to advance the theoretical understanding of the dynamics of excitations in exotic quantum states of matter. The research will focus on three main thrusts: 1) developing new theoretical models and techniques for studying quantum spin...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research by Prof. Thomas Kempa and his group at Johns Hopkins University to develop new quantum material platforms based on two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with 2D semiconductor materials. The $307,752 award will fund efforts to chemically design 2D MOF structures and assemble them into van der Waals heterostructures with...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded the University of California, Los Angeles a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate spin, exciton, and chemical dynamics in crystalline solids for applications in quantum information science. Professor Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay and his research group will use pulsed lasers on nano-crystals of selected ketones suspended in water to detect the absorption spectra and decay...