Quantum Communication

NtropiQ's Quantum Communication Division has been working on communication channel integrity certification protocols, using quantum states of light pulses in the single photon regime, which can be obtained in two different approaches: one via attenuated laser pulses , up to the few-photon regime, and another via sources of genuinely individual photons, generated for example via descending parametric processes (which give rise to twin photons, as they are known in the field). Once such single photons are obtained, quantum information can then be encoded in them so that if anyone tries to intercept or monitor them, we are then immediately aware.

The research initiative aims to develop genuinely individual photon generators, in addition to integrating market components that demonstrate the feasibility of applications for protection and security of communication channels, including the development of electronic, cryptographic and photonic equipment that implement the solution in a industrially replicable, which has already been demonstrated in the present phase of the project.

Through the collaboration organized by NtropiQ, researchers from UFSCar and UFMG have structured a functional setup that has served not only as a proof-of-concept of innovation propositions in the segment, but also as a platform for device and control designs by the Engineering and Research teams carried out by other independent researchers and the von Braun Center.

The solutions are being organized in prototypes to be tested in real communication networks of Highways and Cities for specific tests aimed at the immediate interest of companies and public and private institutions.

Computer Systems

Quantum computing has the ability to transform information processing in an unprecedented way. Here at NtropiQ's Quantum Computing Division we have been investigating how quantum computing can help us more efficiently solve some types of optimization problems. As the capacity of quantum computers is still limited, it is not possible to demonstrate the predicted exponential gains, but we can already apply such algorithms to simplified problems as a proof of concept.

NtropiQ is using the quantum computing services offered by companies in the market to, through algorithms developed by teams of researchers and engineers, address practical application problems in the industry related to the optimization of processes and use of resources (Data, Servers, Resources Natural, Carrier Fleets, Warehouse, Task Allocation in Complex Systems, among other applications), as well as in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications related to the Financial Market and Data-Driven Projects with global companies that are served by the Center's Startups von Braun (eg https://www.adtsys.com.br/data-lake-blockchain-as-a-service/).

At NtropiQ we also investigate new algorithms that can use current quantum computers, with limited capacity of qubits and connections, and that can provide us with gains in relation to the best algorithms/classical computers; in this case, small computational gains can already result in large financial ones, depending on the problem investigated, the proof of concept that we are actively conducting on real problems related to the industry, in von Braun's clients.

Advanced Algorithms

NtropiQ provides reference codes and tweaks, customizations needed for application development. For this, we work with algorithms, classical or quantum, already ready/operational that serve as a basis for developments in practical applications afterwards.

For example, in complex problems such as optimization of object allocation from industrial stocks, from routing to general logistics, energy distribution and smart cities, solution of complex systems of differential equations for banking applications and fluid dynamics (aerospace, oil & gas, energy), simulation of molecules for applications in new materials and new drugs, among many others.