Project Grant FA9550261B228

This $197,780 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel quantum magnetometer sensor based on an organic chromophore coupled with a mechanical resonator. The research aims to create an ultra-sensitive and highly efficient magnetometer sensor that can detect variations in magnetic fields through the quantum emission of a single chromophore. This work has potential applications in fields such as robotics,...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program (CFDA 47.049), will enable researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University to explore fundamental quantum phenomena and develop techniques for efficient characterization of magnetic noise at the atomic level. The $1,750,000 project, with a period of performance from July 2024 to August 2027, aims to expand understanding of electronic noise...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $300,000 to the University of Colorado Boulder for theoretical research on inertial sensing applications of superradiant lasers. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2022 supports quantitative analysis of a proposed new type of inertial sensor based on collective atomic effects in an optical ring resonator. The Principal Investigator will evaluate the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of compact, deployable, and self-reliant navigation and timekeeping systems using quantum emitters in group IV materials. The key research thrusts include: Engineering broadband and stable vector magnetometry using color centers in diamond for magnetic navigation, by enhancing sensitivity through photonic device integration and conducting simultaneous...

This three-year, $284,063 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research into advances in quantum control and noise mitigation using a highly accurate quantum testbed. The University of Arizona, operating through the Arizona Board of Regents, will lead collaborative experimental and theoretical work to develop new techniques for quantum control and shielding quantum devices from noise. Researchers will employ a small,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $379,998 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to perform research on quantum sensing of room-temperature van der Waals magnets for next-generation quantum spintronic device applications. The research aims to utilize nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers to directly visualize field-free deterministic magnetization switching and magnetic skyrmions in the 2D magnet Fe3GeTe2, advancing the design...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $450,000 over 3 years to the University of New Mexico to develop an advanced magnetometry sensor based on frequency comb techniques. The proposed sensor will exploit direct phase detection rather than amplitude measurements, enabling enhanced resolution and sensitivity for gradient magnetic field detection. Key technical objectives include theoretical modeling, verification with a...

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 federal Project Grant award of $796,516 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development of a new device to generate a highly polarization-squeezed light beam for quantum-enhanced optical magnetometry. The award funds a collaboration between Miami University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a robust and efficient source of polarization-squeezed light to significantly enhance the performance of...

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...