The Brazilian Funding Authority for Studies and Projects (FINEP) awarded BRL 23 million (approximately USD 4.6 million) to the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF), a unit of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), for the construction of a Quantum Technologies Laboratory. Of the total, BRL 22 million was allocated to the laboratory’s construction and BRL 1 million to operations of the Rio Quântica quantum communication network.
According to TI Inside, the laboratory is intended for the manufacture of superconducting devices, including quantum chips, SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices), parametric amplifiers, and photon detectors. Resources also came from the National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT) of Quantum Information and the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FNDCT).
By late 2024, the laboratory had received a dilution refrigerator capable of cooling devices to temperatures near absolute zero, along with an evaporator for physical production of the devices. Four research lines are planned: production of quantum chips based on Josephson junctions, quantum optics and communication, diamond-based quantum sensors, and nuclear magnetic resonance for quantum information processing.