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Quantum Explorations in Science and Technology (QuEST) Seed Grants

Quantum Explorations in Science and Technology (QuEST) Seed Grants

In October 2018, CU Boulder’s Research & Innovation Office, in partnership with the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Arts and Sciences, JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, announced a new funding opportunity to support multi-disciplinary, trans-institutional research partnerships that will be competitive for future funding opportunities of the National Quantum Initiative and other quantum research solicitations.

Jan. 15, 2019: Awardees Announced Original Call for Proposals

The 2018 QuEST awardees, announced on January 15, 2019, are listed below.

2018 QuEST Seed Grant Winners

Victor Bright

PI Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering
Co-PI: Juliet Gopinath (Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering), Scott Papp (NIST)
Title: Entangled frequency combs in a liquid droplet

Gang Cao

PI Affiliation: Physics
Co-PI: Sandeep Sharma (Chemistry)
Title: Quantum Entanglement in Strongly Spin-Orbit Coupled Matter

Dan Dessau

PI Affiliation: Physics, JILA
Co-PI: Prashant Nagpal (Chemical & Biological Engineering, RASEI)
Title: Topological superconductivity and Majorana quasiparticles

Juliet Gopinath

PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Co-PI: Krister Shalm (NIST, Physics), Wounjhang Park (Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering)
Title: A Loophole-Free Bell Test on a Chip

Aaron Holder

PI Affiliation: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Co-PI: Andriy Zakutayev (NREL, RASEI)
Title: Unleashing High-throughput Materials Design into the Quantum Realm

Svenja Knappe

PI Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering
Co-PI: Matt Brubaker (NIST), Kristine Bertness (NIST)
Title: A chip-scale atomic clock based on nanowire LEDs

Heather Lewandowski

PI Affiliation: Physics, JILA
Co-PI: Sarah Miller (College of Engineering & Applied Science, BOLD Center) and Benjamin Zwickl (Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology)
Title: Quantum Education and Workforce Development

Josef Michl

PI Affiliation: Chemistry
Co-PI: T Mitch Wallis (NIST)
Title: Porphene: An Analog of Graphene and a New Quantum Material

Sanghamitra Neogi

PI Affiliation: Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Co-PI: Fabian Menges (Physics, JILA)
Title: Controlling the quantum state of atom-like defects via topologically engineered phonon polariton modes

Marco Nicotra

PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Co-PI: David Leibrandt (NIST, Physics)
Title: Advanced Control Algorithms for Trapped-ion Quantum Metrology

Wounjhang Park

PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Co-PI: Ralph Jimenez (JILA, NIST)
Title: Photon and nanomaterials engineering for quantum-enhanced biosensing

Zoya Popovic

PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Co-PI: Dana Anderson (Physics, JILA)
Title: Millimeter-wave antenna array processing using laser-cooled Rydberg atoms

Markus Raschke

PI Affiliation: Physics, Chemistry, JILA
Co-PI: Scott Diddams (NIST)
Title: Single molecule vibrational strong coupling with nano-cavities: A new regime of quantum opto-mechanics

Cindy Regal

PI Affiliation: Physics, JILA
Co-PI: Bob Mcleod (Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering), Adam Kaufman (NIST, JILA, Physics)
Title: Ultrastable spatial light modulators for quantum state assembly with neutral atoms and entanglement-assisted clocks

Charles Rogers

PI Affiliation: Physics
Co-PI: Victor Bright (Mechanical Engineering), Steve George (Chemistry)
Title: Improved gallium nitride nanowire mechanical damping and optical absorption for quantum-limited sensors

Sean Shaheen

PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Co-PI: Markus Raschke (Physics, Chemistry, JILA)
Title: Room Temperature Coherence and Condensation in Exciton-Polariton States: Toward Practical Quantum Phenomena in Cavity-Coupled Perovskite Materials

L. Krister Shalm

PI Affiliation: NIST, Physics
Co-PI: Kate Stange (Mathematics), Paul Beale (Physics)
Title: A quantum randomness beacon

Bart Van Zeghbroeck

PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Co-PI: Sam Benz (NIST) & Paul Hale (NIST)
Title: Cryometrology and Sampling Technology for Future Quantum Networking, Communication and Computing Systems

Xiaobo Yin

PI Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering
Co-PI: Markus Raschke (Physics, Chemistry, JILA), Baowen Li (Mechanical Engineering)
Title: Local exciton control in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides: an enabling platform for quantum sensors and memories

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