Project Grant N000142612085

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $1,900,000.00 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to fund the "LASER COOLING OF MOLECULES WITH OCTUPOLE-DEFORMED NUCLEI FOR FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS" project. The award period is from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. The funding supports MIT's scientific research to advance the understanding of laser cooling techniques for molecules...

This two-year, $297,189 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research aims to develop new approaches for ultra-low temperature refrigeration without reliance on rare helium isotopes. Specifically, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will investigate using electrically-tunable spin-orbit interactions in Rashba materials to achieve refrigeration through adiabatic electrification, with a goal of reaching temperatures as low as 0.01 K. If successful,...

This federal Project Grant award of $216,940.00 from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports fundamental and applied research to develop laser cooling technologies for solid-state materials that could advance naval capabilities. The grant, awarded to Fundacion Ciencias Exactas Y Naturales (Fundacen) in Argentina, focuses on pushing the limits of laser cooling in solids and exploring potential...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,993 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a low insertion loss high power cryogenic Faraday isolator for carbon dioxide wavelengths. The isolator will allow for more efficient transmission of laser light for scientific applications such as spectroscopy. The Office of Science seeks to advance scientific understanding and energy technologies through...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a new sub-kelvin refrigerator using superfluid helium vortex cooling. Funded under the Engineering (47.041) program, Yale University will analyze, design, build a prototype, and benchmark a two-stage cooling system combining a superfluid vortex cooler and Joule-Thomson precooler. The system aims to achieve high-capacity cooling below 1K without using helium-3, addressing stockpile depletion issues. By...

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 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...

This $38,090 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop fundamental knowledge and enable the deployment of next-generation cryogenic electro-optic materials integrated on silicon for quantum photonic circuits. The research aims to address challenges in translating promising nanoscale materials into successful devices by...

Raytum Photonics LLC was awarded a $199,995 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a broadband low aberration composite magnet sextupole lens. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Under this February 2022 award concluding in November...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to develop new quantum control methods for fault-tolerant bosonic quantum computing operations. The $363,649 award to Cornell University aims to advance theoretical, computational, and experimental techniques to enable active manipulation of quantum information stored using bosonic encodings while maintaining their built-in error protection properties. This...