Project Grant W911NF2510285

This $360,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Physics supports fundamental research and graduate student training in the frontiers of cold atom theory and ultracold gases. The three-year award, effective August 1, 2024, is designed to expand the range of quantum mechanics that can be studied through cold gas experiments, with the goal of applying this knowledge to develop new quantum materials and technologies. The research program, organized around...

This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support theoretical research at Louisiana State University (LSU) on novel phases of confined cold atomic gases from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research team at LSU will develop new predictions for possible collective states of trapped cold atomic gases, shedding light on emergent phenomena like superfluidity and magnetism. They will study implications of recent...

This $517,450 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to create a new class of condensed matter called "Heterogeneous Rare-Gas Quantum Solids." The 3-year project, running from September 2025 to August 2028, will focus on growing and characterizing multilayer thin films of solid neon, solid argon, and a monolayer of solid helium at near-zero temperature and pressure. The research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program provides $423,422.00 to Purdue University from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028. The project aims to develop novel and unconventional techniques to enable the quantum mechanical description of few-body systems, including 3-body, 4-body, and 5-body problems. Key objectives include generating credible predictions of new phenomena and qualitative insights to advance this field of...

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 program supports research investigating how gases of neutral atoms doped with charges (hybrid systems) exhibit novel behaviors under extreme conditions such as ultracold temperatures or quantum degeneracy. The $375,000 grant awarded to the University of Massachusetts Boston will fund two interconnected areas of study: (1) exploring the control and behaviors of hybrid samples under extreme...

This Project Grant award of $461,018 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports a research program focused on electron beam control and measurement for the upcoming P2 experiment at the MESA accelerator in Germany. The key objectives are: (1) ensuring the achievement of high-precision parity quality electron beam for the P2 experiment to meet stringent systematic uncertainty goals, and (2) designing a novel atomic hydrogen polarimeter...

This $649,435 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of a tabletop experiment at the University of Chicago with unprecedented sensitivity to hadronic CP violation. The experiment aims to develop a new approach using an optically-trapped, ultracold gas of the polar molecule francium-223 (223FrAg) to search for the Schiff moment of francium-223. This has the potential to increase sensitivity to nuclear charge distribution deformations by a factor of 1,000 beyond the...

This three-year, $354,239 National Science Foundation project grant supports theoretical research at Purdue University to advance understanding of universal few-body quantum systems and interactions. Specifically, the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant will develop quantitative descriptions of three to five particle systems, such as atoms, molecules, nucleons or quarks, to extract new insights into universal behavior and predict phenomena. The effort will apply computational methods like...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $645,309 to Northwestern University to develop techniques for precision measurements on atoms and molecules trapped within inert cryogenic crystals from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The researchers will produce the first doped cryocrystals suitable for searches beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. They will grow large inert...