PREM: Partnership between CSUN and Princeton for Quantum Materials

非技术性摘要：加州州立大学北岭大学（CSUN）是美国最大的大学之一，每年招收超过40，000名学生，并被归类为西班牙裔服务和少数民族服务机构。超过50%的学生谁表明种族是来自代表性不足的群体（URG）。大约46%的学生是西班牙裔背景。在美国，CSUN在向代表性不足的少数民族学生授予学士学位方面排名第13，在向拉丁裔学生授予学士学位方面排名第7。该材料研究和教育合作伙伴关系（PREM）项目致力于通过与普林斯顿复杂材料中心建立长期合作伙伴关系来扩大和加强CSUN的研究和教育活动。PREM的愿景是建立一个量子材料的联合研究中心，增加URG成员的招聘，保留和学位获得，并广泛影响材料研究，教育和推广。将采取多管齐下的战略，从大学生团体招收学生。预计将有15-20名研究生和30-35名本科生-其中大部分来自URG-将参与由教师指导的尖端材料研究，并将获得硕士学位。和B. S。度，分别。本科生和高中教师的暑期研究培训计划将在普林斯顿大学组织，而高中教师的纳米科学夏令营将在CSUN组织。将开发一套新的实验课程，为学生的研究做好准备。还将与工业界和国家实验室建立伙伴关系，促进学生培训和实习。研究与教育的融合将使学生能够做出明智的职业选择，并提高他们参与研究生教育的能力。该PREM旨在解决量子材料中具有重要科学和技术重要性以及经济和社会影响的基本问题，如可再生能源，纳米技术，自旋电子学和量子计算。一个具有协调和互补技能的多学科团队被组装成两个跨学科小组（IRG）和一个种子项目。IRG 1将解决量子和拓扑材料的前沿问题，包括受抑材料中的自发分数拓扑量子霍尔效应，周期性驱动系统中的分数拓扑物理，以及检测相互作用驱动系统中准粒子的分数统计。沿着基本的进展，这个IRG也将探索新的拓扑材料的计算发现。IRG 2将专注于量子材料中激发态的能量学和动力学，包括用于单线态裂变的有机材料，二维（2D）半导体异质结构和用于光伏应用的2D混合钙钛矿。该种子项目将解决表面科学和缺陷物理问题的光催化分解水的二氧化钛和二维材料。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

Non-technical Summary:California State University Northridge (CSUN) is one of the largest universities in the US with annual enrollment over 40,000 students and is classified as both Hispanic-serving and Minority-serving institution. More than 50% of the students who indicated ethnicity are from underrepresented groups (URGs). Approximately 46% of the total student population is of Hispanic background. CSUN ranks 13th in awarding bachelor's degrees to underrepresented minority students and 7th in bachelor's degrees to Latino students in the US. This Partnership in Research and Education for Materials (PREM) project strives to expand and strengthen the research and educational activities at CSUN by forming a long-term partnership with Princeton Center for Complex Materials. The vision of the PREM is to establish a joint research powerhouse on quantum materials, to increase recruitment, retention and degree attainment by members of URGs and to impact broadly on materials research, education and outreach. Multipronged strategies will be carried out to recruit students from URGs. It is anticipated that 15-20 graduate and 30-35 undergraduate students - most of them from URGs - will be involved in cutting-edge materials research mentored by the faculty and will graduate with M.S. and B.S. degree, respectively. Summer research training programs for undergraduates and high school teachers will be organized at Princeton, while nano-science summer camps for high school teachers will be organized at CSUN. A new set of experimental courses preparing the students for research will be developed. Partnership with industry and national laboratories for student training and internships will also be developed. The integration of research and education will enable students to make informed career choices and improve their ability to participate in post-graduate education. Technical Summary:This PREM aims to address fundamental problems in quantum materials that have vital scientific and technological importance as well as economical and societal impacts, such as renewable energy, nanotechnology, spintronics and quantum computing. A multidisciplinary team with coordinated and complementary skills is assembled into two interdisciplinary groups (IRGs) and one seed project. IRG1 will tackle frontier problems in quantum and topological materials, including spontaneous fractional topological quantum Hall effect in frustrated materials, fractional topological physics in periodically driven systems, and detecting fractional statistics for quasi-particles in interaction driven systems. Along with the fundamental advance, this IRG will also explore computational discovery of novel topological materials. IRG2 will focus on energetics and dynamics of excited states in quantum materials, including organic materials for singlet fission, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructures, and 2D hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications. The seed project will address surface science and defect physics problems relevant to photocatalytic splitting of water on anatase titania and 2D materials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.