Project Grant N629092212039

This Project Grant award of $683,990.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research on polarized electron physics and electron scattering dynamics. Key products and services to be delivered include: Experiments studying collisions between polarized electrons and chiral, or "handed", molecules to investigate the magnetic effects caused by electron spins and provide insights into the origins of...

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 Division of Chemistry awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison $650,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop methods for accurately and efficiently incorporating nuclear quantum effects into ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Principal Investigator Dr. Yang Yang and his research group will continue developing Constrained Nuclear-Electronic Orbital Density Functional Theory and its integration with molecular...

Professor Peter M. Weber of Brown University will use $528,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct time-resolved x-ray scattering experiments measuring precise excited state molecular structures, electron density distributions, and electron-electron pair correlations for selected model systems. The project aims to observe how electrons orbit atomic nuclei in molecules and how their motion correlates, with a...

Through a Project Grant award of $488,035 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Purdue University is investigating ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics in metal chalcogenide nanoclusters and their assembled superatomic materials. The principal investigator, Hanzhe Liu, is using ultrashort extreme ultraviolet light pulses to observe real-time electronic and atomic motions within these superatomic solids. This technique...

This $313,909 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports two lines of scientific research by the University of Chicago: Investigating "quantum super-chemistry" - the discovery of new forms of chemical reactions that emerge at ultra-low temperatures below 10^-9 Kelvin. The research aims to develop innovative ideas and applications to control these coherent chemical reactions. Studying the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on imaging and controlling electronic dynamics in matter, from isolated atoms to nanostructures. The $209,000 award to Kansas State University runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The research focuses on numerically modeling the time- and spatially resolved emission of photoelectrons and generation of high-harmonic radiation from adsorbate-covered...

This Project Grant award of $550,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports Professor Markus Raschke of the University of Colorado Boulder in combining nano-scale imaging and spectroscopy with optical nano-cavity concepts to study fundamental electronic and vibrational excitations in chemical systems. The research aims to enhance quantum state control and increase the quantum yield of quantum dots, as well as resolve...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $150,000 aims to advance understanding of strong-field and ultrafast processes in atomic systems through theoretical and computational modeling. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award supports research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to describe interactions between intense coherent radiation and large quantum systems. Specific investigations include...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program establishes a new international research initiative called the Inter-American Network of Networks of Quantum Chromodynamics Challenges (IANN QCD). The project brings together scientists from the U.S., Canada, and Latin America to collaborate on fundamental questions in quantum chromodynamics, which explores how matter forms and evolves. Over the 4-year project period...