Project Grant W911NF1210352

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $266,000 in funding to the University of Houston System to advance the understanding of nonequilibrium systems using stochastic thermodynamics. The research focuses on four key topics: Exploring the connection between stochastic thermodynamics and chimera states, a phase of interacting oscillators where only part synchronize, to analyze the role of energy...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $259,999, will support research into dynamical evolutions in complex, high-dimensional energy landscapes. Specifically, the awardee, Northwestern University, will investigate Markov chain dynamics arising from spin systems in statistical physics, which serve as prototypical examples for protein folding, evolutionary dynamics, out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, and neural...

This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on the quantum dynamics of near-one-dimensional systems at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). The PI will develop theoretical tools to quantitatively model and analyze experiments on ultracold atomic gases confined to one dimension, with a focus on understanding the far-from-equilibrium dynamics and emergent hydrodynamic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical and computational research and education into quantum mechanical systems of interacting particles far from equilibrium. The $294,777 award to the Trustees of Boston University will focus on two major themes: (1) understanding, characterizing, and controlling chaos in interacting many-particle systems; and (2) developing formalism for...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Dartmouth College to advance the understanding of non-Hermitian dynamics in quantum systems. The project aims to: (1) theoretically characterize the stability and entanglement properties of non-Hermitian bosonic systems, including under time-varying conditions; (2) experimentally demonstrate a tunable quantum-level non-Hermitian nonlinear...

This Project Grant award of $307,887 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will enable the University of California, Merced to advance the scientific understanding and technological applications of topological quantum matter at finite temperatures. The research project aims to utilize the power of quantum computers to systematically characterize the properties of topological quantum systems at finite...

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...

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...

The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded Princeton University a $108,991 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support theoretical research and education on the dynamics of interacting quantum systems that equilibrate anomalously slowly. The grant period runs from December 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. Specifically, the award will fund the development of computational methods tailored to characterizing...

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,...