Project Grant W911NF2510215

The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop energy efficient quantum control of robust spin ensemble qubits. The three-year award will support research to simulate and demonstrate highly localized control of qubits using nanomagnets driven by electric fields at spin qubit Larmor frequencies. This aims to implement single-qubit quantum gates with high fidelities...

This $995,658 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to accelerate the development and adoption of quantum sensing platforms to drive advances in magnetic materials and devices. The award supports an interdisciplinary team at Case Western Reserve University that will develop a magnetic quantum sensing platform using nitrogen-vacancy defects in diamond to detect magnetic waves (magnons) in novel magnetic...

This $239,329 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop thin films of erbium-doped yttrium iron garnets to demonstrate efficient microwave-to-optical transduction. The project, awarded to Northeastern University, has three main thrusts: (1) using magnetron sputtering to grow the erbium-doped thin films, (2) comprehensively characterizing the structural, magnetic, and optical properties of the films, and (3) fabricating...

This is a $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) to Vanderbilt University. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "CQIS: On-Chip Nanoscale Trap and Enhance Device (NOTED) for Quantum Photonics." The project aims to develop an integrated on-chip device that can rapidly assemble and enhance the rate of single photon production for advancing quantum technologies like secure data communication,...

This $274,786 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of a cutting-edge scanning magnetometer microscope by Femtosenselabs, LLC. This new microscope technology will enable high-resolution imaging of novel magnetic materials with unprecedented sensitivity at the nanoscale, supporting the advancement of spintronics and the development of...

This $2.46 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into interconnected superconducting and color center qubits in silicon devices from September 2021 through August 2025. The University of California, Berkeley will lead efforts to design high kinetic inductance superconducting devices using disordered superconducting alloys for insensitivity to light fields and coupling microwave fields to mechanical modes....

This $413,851 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research by Case Western Reserve University to develop magnetic nanostructures for addressing and coupling nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center spin qubits. The goal is to understand how to engineer magnetic materials and structures to provide strong, local, and controllable magnetic fields for manipulating NV center...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award provides $408,691 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to develop the first deterministic solid-state photonic quantum register capable of storing multiple optical photons. The project aims to utilize germanium vacancy centers in diamond as quantum memory, leveraging the 10-dimensional qudit enabled by the nuclear spin of the 73Ge isotope to store multiple qubits of quantum information. Key goals include...

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 $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,...