Quantum Enhanced Superfluid Technologies for Dark Matter and Cosmology (QUEST-DMC): PDRA/ECR Extension
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sussex
Department Name: Sch of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Abstract
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| Description | Searching for early universe phase transitions with gravitational waves |
| Amount | € 590,603 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 363676 |
| Organisation | Academy of Finland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Finland |
| Start | 08/2024 |
| End | 08/2028 |
| Description | CSC IT Center for Science |
| Organisation | CSC – IT Centre for Science |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | As active users of HPC systems, team members feed back to IT Center for Science's support team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing state-of-the-art HPC facilities (Mahti, Lumi) for simulations of Helium 3 system. |
| Impact | Software |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Helsinki Institute of Physics |
| Organisation | Helsinki Institute of Physics |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Introduced Helium-3 as an analogue system for cosmological phase transitions. Team postdoc contributed to Computational Field Theory group's parallel software framework Hila while developing simulation code. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting team postdoc as a visiting researcher, providing with office facilities including internet and library. CFT group leader Rummukainen, lead developer of parallel software framework Hila, contributes time to the research team at around 5%. |
| Impact | Paper; software; blog post. The collboration links quantum fluids to cosmology and gravitational waves. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | James Sauls group, Louisiana State University |
| Organisation | Louisiana State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Developing code for dynamical simulations of superfluid helium 3. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Theoretical knowledge of underlying partial differential equation (time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation) and associated physics. |
| Impact | Submission to JTLP (under consideration) https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07878, code under development (https://bitbucket.org/hindmars/he3-simulator/src/main/) |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Title | DyGiLa |
| Description | Parallel simulation code for superfluid Helium 3 |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Enabling research, publications to appear. |
| URL | https://dygila.github.io |
| Description | Helsinki Institute of Physics blog entry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wrote blog entry on QUEST-DMC project, with project postdoc Kuang Zhang. Was picked up by Finnish science communicator, Syksy Räsänen, https://www.ursa.fi/blogi/kosmokseen-kirjoitettua/kuplahairikot/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://blog.hip.fi |