Research Grants for Jim Freericks

• Department of Energy ASCR quantum utility grant (DE-SC0025483), Algorithms for Quantum Utility: Intelligent, Robust, and Efficiently Distributed (AQUIRED), Ryan Bennick (PI), Eleanor Rieffel (co-PI), Jim Freericks (c-PI), Lex Kemper (co-PI) 2024-2029 $560,000.
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research STEM grant (FA9550-24-1-0292), Improving undergraduate education to prepare the quantum-enabled workforce in quantum sensing, James Freericks (PI), Leanne Doughty and Justyna Zwolak (co-PIs) 2024-2027 $369,604.
• Department of Energy , Condensed Matter Theory grant (DE-FG02-08ER46542), Theoretical description of nonequilibrium dynamics of electron-phonon coupled quantum materials, Jim Freericks (PI) 2024-2027 $480,000.
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research STEM grant (FA9550-23-1-0378), Improving undergraduate education to prepare the quantum-enabled workforce in quantum sensing, James Freericks (PI), Leanne Doughty and Justyna Zwolak (co-PIs) 2023-2024 $45,568.
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research STEM grant (FA9550-22-1-0469), Improving undergraduate education to prepare the quantum-enabled workforce in quantum sensing, James Freericks (PI), Leanne Doughty and Justyna Zwolak (co-PIs) 2022-2023 $22,000.
• Department of Energy , Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics grant (DE-SC0023231), Robust Quantum Computing for Condensed Matter Physics, Lex Kemper (PI) and James Freericks (co-PI) 2022-2025 $761,035 (Georgetown amount $355,388).
• Department of Energy , X-ray scattering grant (DE-SC0019126), Multimodal Quantum Material Control Monitored with Ultrafast Coherent X-rays, Keith Nelson (PI), Riccardo Comin, J. K. Freericks, Nick Sirica, David Reis, and Mariano Trigo (co-PIs) (2022-2025) $4,267,600 (Georgetown amount: $508,262).
• National Science Foundation, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry grant (CHEM-2154671), Collaborative Research: Practical Strategies for Implementing Quantum Chemistry on Near-Term Quantum Computers, Jim Freericks (PI) and Dominika Zgid (PI) 2022-2025 $600,000 (Georgetown amount $300,000).
• Department of Energy , Condensed Matter Theory grant (DE-FG02-08ER46542), Theory for pump/probe experiments in charge-density-wave materials, Jim Freericks (PI) 2020-2023 $450,000.
• National Science Foundation, Quantum Leap Challenge Institute conceptual grant (OMA-1936853),
  "QLCI-CG: Conceptualization of The Institute for Quantum Biology on Quantum Computers," Beverly Saunders (PI), Hai-Ping Chen (co-PI), Erik Deumens (co-PI), Jim Freericks (co-PI), and Chenglong Li (co-PI), $149,999 (Georgetown amount $0) 2019-2020.
• National Science Foundation, Quantum Information grant (PHY-1915130)
  "Engineering Reservoirs and Optimizing Response Function Measurements in Quantum Simulators and Computers", Jim Freericks PI, $320,000, 2019-2022.
• Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing Research Quantum Computing Applications Teams grant (ERKJ347),
  "Software Stack and Algorithms for Automating Quantum-Classical Computing", Pavel Lougovski (PI), Ryan Bennink (co-PI), Zohrah Davoudi (co-PI), Eugene Dumitrescu (co-PI), Jim Freericks (co-PI), Kathleen Hamilton (co-PI), Itay Hen (co-PI), Travis Humble (co-PI), Alex McCaskey (co-PI), Shirley Moore (co-PI), Sarah Powers (co-PI), Gregory Quiroz (co-PI), Brian Swingle (co-PI), Nathan Wiebe (co-PI) $8,000,000 (Georgetown amount $481,508) 2018-2022.
• Department of Energy , Research at the Frontiers of X-ray Free-electron Laser Science grant (DE-SC0019126),
  "Driven Quantum Matter Probed with Coherent X-Rays", Keith Nelson (PI), Riccardo Comin (co-PI), Jim Freericks (co-PI), Rohit Prasankumar (co-PI), David Reiss (co-PI), and Mariano Trigo (co-PI) $4,380,000 (Georgetown amount $688,493) 2018-2021.
• Department of Energy , Basic Energy Sciences Quantum Information grant (DE-SC0019469),
  "Simulating Long-Time Evolution of Driven Many-Body Systems with Next Generation Quantum Computers", J. K. Freericks (PI) and Alexander Kemper (co-PI) $1,238,665 (Georgetown amount $697,183) 2018-2021.
• National Science Foundation, EAGER grant (CHE-1836497),
  "New Design for Quantum Chemistry Calculations on Emerging Quantum Computer," J. K. Freericks (PI) and Dominika Zgid (co-PI) $300,000 (Georgetown amount \$171,038) 2017-2019.
• Department of Energy , Materials Theory grant (DE-FG02-08ER46542)
  "Theoretical description of pump-probe experiments in quantum materials," J. K. Freericks PI, $420,000 2017-2020.
• National Science Foundation Quantum Information grant (PHY-1620555)
  "Ion trap based quantum computers: From benchmarking to outperforming classical digital computers," Jim Freericks PI, $269,711, 2016-2019.
• Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences (DE-FG02-08ER46542)
  "Theoretical description of pump-probe experiments in ordered materials," , Jim Freericks PI, $360,000, 2014--2017.
• National Science FoundationEmerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation grant (EFRI-1433307)
  "EFRI 2DARE: Ultra low power, collective state device technology based on electron correlation in two-dimensional atomic layers," Joshua Robinson (PI), Suman Datta, Eva Andrei, Roman Engel-Herbert, and Jim Freericks (co-PIs), $2,000,000, (Georgetown amount: $280,000) 2014-2018.
• National Science Foundation Physics at the Information Frontier grant (PHY-1314295)
  "PIF: Beyond adiabatic state preparation for ion trap quantum simulators," Jim Freericks PI, $165,000, 2013-2016.
• Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, Computational Materials Science and Chemistry Network (DE-SC-0007091)
  "Computational time-resolved and resonant x-ray scattering of strongly correlated materials," with Arun Bansil, Jim Freericks, Michel Van Veenendaal, Bob Markiewiecz lead PIs and 11 other co-investigators, $960,000, 2011--2014 (funded through Northeastern University).
• Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences (DE-FG02-08ER46542)
  "Time-resolved photoemission, transmissivity, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in strongly correlated materials,", Jim Freericks PI, $270,000, 2011--2014.
• Indo-US Science and Technology Forum Joint Research Center (JC-18-2009 Ultracold atoms)
  "Theoretical physics of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices", H.R. Krishnamurthy (India PI) and J.K.F. (US PI), with Krishnendu Sengupta, Vijay Shenoy, Nandini Trivedi, and Marcos Rigol, $103,126 (funded through the Indian Institute of Science), 2010--2012.
• National Science Foundation Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Program (DMR-1006605)
  "Transport and nonequilibrium effects in strongly correlated multilayered nanostructures", with Amy Liu, $630,000, 2010--2013.
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research MURI on ultracold dipolar molecules (FA9559-09-1-0617)
  "{Muri 09) Ultracold Polar Molecules: New phases of matter for quantum information and quantum control," Paul Julienne (PI), Cheng Chin, Sankar Das Sarma, Brett Esry, Jim Freericks, Chris Greene, Jeremy Hutson, Debbie Jin, Jun Ye, and Peter Zoeller, $5,250,000, 2009--2014 (Georgetown amount $669,042).
• National Science Foundation Office of Cyber Infrastructure (OCI-0904597)
  "Collaborative research: Development of efficienct petascale algorithms for inhomogeneous quantum-mechanical systems," Jim Freericks (PI), Marcos Rigol, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Yousef Saad, and Pierre Carrier, $1,500,000, 2009--2013 (Georgetown amount $750,000).
• Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences, Computational Materials Science Network (DE-FG02-08ER46540)
  "Building a unified computational model for the resonant X-ray scattering of strongly correlated materials," with Arun Bansil, Jim Freericks, Michel Van Veenendaal, Bob Markiewiecz lead PIs and 11 other co-investigators, $840,000, 2008--2011 (funded through Northeastern University).
• Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences (DE-FG02-08ER46542)
  K-edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in strongly correlated materials, $270,000, 2008--2011.
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Optical Lattice Emulator Program (W911NF-07-1-0576)
  Quantum simulation of magnetic spin phases with atoms and ions in optical lattices, with Chris Monroe (PI) and 14 other co-investigators (John Bollinger, Cheng Chin, Ignacio Cirac, Luming Duan, Jason Ho, Joel Moore, Trey Porto, Ana-Maria Rey, Richard Scalettar, Dick Slusher, Ian Spielman, Dan Stamper-Kurn, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Jun Ye) $13,173,000, 2007--2012 (Georgetown amount $685,229). Acknowledgment: Supported under ARO Award W911NF0710576 with funds from the DARPA OLE Program.
• National Science Foundation Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Program (DMR-0705266)
  Modeling Strongly Correlated Multilayered Nanostructures for use as Thermoelectric Refrigerators , with A. Y. Liu, $591,000, 2007--2010.
• Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Workshop Building a unified computational model for the resonant X-ray scattering of strongly correlated materials, with Michel Van Veenendaal (PI) and Arun Bansil, $11,500 (funded directly through Northern Illinois University) (2007).
• Civilian Research and Development Fund Cooperative Grants Program Award (UKP2-2697-LV-06)
  Inelastic light scattering in strongly correlated materials: resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, nonresonant X-ray scattering in 2-d and X-ray scattering in charge density wave systems , with Andrij Shvaika, Tom Devereaux, and Mark Jarrell, $63,000, 2006-2008. Success story (in Ukrainian).
• Office of Naval Research Superconducting Electronics Grant (N000140510078)
  Theoretical modelling of 10K and 30K Josephson junctions for digital electronics, $110,604, 2005--2007.
• National Science Foundation Materials Theory (and Division of International Programs) Grant (DMR-0210717)
  NIRT: Computational design and optimization of nanoscale spintronic and thermoelectric devices, , with Amy Liu and Barbara Jones, $1,060,000, 2002-2006. (Final report).
• Civilian Research and Development Fund Cooperative Grants Program Award (UP2-2436-LV-02)
  Theoretical Simulation of Electronic Raman Scattering Near a Metal-Insulator Transition, with Andrij Shvaika, Tom Devereaux, and Mark Jarrell, $69,000, 2002-2004 (Final Report).
• Oak Ridge Associated Universities Visiting Industrial Scholar Program, with Jerome Luine, $600, 2002.
• Office of Naval Research Superconducting Electronics Grant (N00014-99-1-0328, renewal)
  Theoretical modeling of Josephson junctions for digital electronics, $232,872, 2002-2005 (Final Report).
• National Science Foundation Materials Theory Workshop Grant (DMR-0108908)
  Spintronics 2001, Washington, DC, August 9--11, 2001, with Paola Barbara and Igor Zutic $4,300 2001--2002 (Final Report).
• IBM, Almaden Research Center, Joint study agreement on theoretical modeling of spintronics devices, with Barbara Jones, $2,950, 2001--2003.
• National Science Foundation Materials Theory (and Division of International Programs) Grant (DMR-9973225)
  Combining ab initio and many-body theory to describe the electron-phonon interaction in real materials, with Amy Liu, $245,000, 1999-2002 (Final Report).
• Office of Naval Research Superconducting Electronics Grant (N00014-99-1-0328)
  A microscopic description of the Josephson-junction interface, $236,625, 1999-2002 (Final Report).
• Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE) Long-Term Host Grant
  Statistical mechanics of crystal and alloy formation, with Romuald Lemanski, $15,000, 1999.
• National Science Foundation Division of International Programs Grant (INT-9722782)
  US-Croatia Research on the effect of nonconstant electronic density of states on the integrated theory of superconductivity in real materials, with Veljko Zlatic', $16,040 1997-1999 (Final Report).
• National Science Foundation Materials Theory Grant (DMR-9627778)
  An Integrated First-Principles and Many-Body Theory Description of Electron-Phonon Superconductors, with Amy Liu, $144,000, 1996-1999 (Final report).
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award (N00014-96-1-0828)
  Beyond the standard model for superconductivity, $335,000, 1996-1999 (Final Report).
• Petroleum Research Fund Type GB Starter Grant (PRF# 29623-GB6)
  Vertex Corrections to the Theory of Superconductivity, $20,000, 1995-1997 (extended to 1998).
• Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE) Long-Term Host Grant
  Strongly Correlated Electrons in Metals: Beyond the Local Approximation, with Veljko Zlatic, $13,500, 1996.
• Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
  Anharmonic Effects in Superconductivity, $5,000 (plus $5,000 in matching funds), 1995-1996.