The region's first quantum communication laboratory.
We build Quantum Secure Direct Communication — and we train the next generation of Armenian scientists to build it, at home.
We build Quantum Secure Direct Communication — and we train the next generation of Armenian scientists to build it, at home.
Our mission
Quantum computers will one day break today's encryption, and adversaries already harvest encrypted data to decrypt later. Quantum Secure Direct Communication (QSDC) answers this by sending the message itself through a quantum channel, protected by the laws of physics rather than the difficulty of a calculation.
Nairi Quantum is the first laboratory in Armenia and the region to pursue QSDC. Founded by Dr. Michel Kulhandjian (Rice University), we bring together a team of young Armenian scientists and start from the classical communications and coding expertise where they are strongest — advancing, stage by stage, toward true photonic quantum links.
Our mission is twofold: to help secure the communication of the future, and to give a new generation of Armenian scientists a reason to build advanced careers at home rather than abroad.
QSDC transmits the message directly over the quantum channel — no key to steal, no ciphertext to harvest.
We start in software-defined radio, where our team is strongest, and advance toward true photonic quantum links.
A dozen young Armenians, trained at the frontier of quantum technology — the reverse of brain drain.
Research
Our work spans the path from classical communications to physical quantum links. A few of the directions the team is actively pursuing:
Sending the confidential message itself over a quantum channel — no key to distribute, security from the laws of physics.
How real, imperfect coordination channels — loss, delay, jitter, corruption — affect QSDC reliability, latency, and security.
Quantum-inspired emulation on GNU Radio / USRP software-defined radios (classical hardware): waveform masking and eavesdropping detection.
Error correction and channel coding — quantum error correction, qudit and stabilizer codes, and modern decoders — with our collaborators.
Link budgets, fading, Shannon and secrecy capacity, and the loss limits that bound quantum communication.
Continuous- versus discrete-variable receivers, and the roadmap to a single-photon quantum link.
The roadmap
Each stage produces real, publishable results — building toward the region's first photonic quantum-secure link.
Communications theory & coding.
GNU Radio & USRP; physical-layer security.
Emulated QSDC on software-defined radio.
Single-photon hardware, with partner labs.
“Armenia does not need to wait for the quantum age to be handed to it. We are building it here — training our own scientists, on our own soil, to secure the communication of the future.
Dr. Michel Kulhandjian · Founder
Collaborators
Our research is carried out in collaboration with leading scientists in communications and coding theory.
Become a patron
Our researchers are talented and committed. What they need to stay fully dedicated is modest — support for their transportation and a small stipend. We invite patrons to sponsor one member of the team, and we recognize that support with pride.
Sponsor one scientist for a year. Recognized on this site, in our research acknowledgments, and at our events.
Your name carried by the position — "The [Your Name] Fellow" — for the duration of your support.
An early champion of the region's first quantum lab, with a standing invitation to visit and follow our progress.
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Resources
We write accessible material as we build. Our illustrated primer explains what quantum communication really is — from the qubit to continuous-variable receivers — for scientists and curious newcomers alike.
“Coding is the king of quantum.”
Prof. Lajos Hanzo · the foundation our classical-communications and coding work is built on
Press
Our launch and mission were profiled in the Engineering City journal.
Get in touch
Whether you'd like to sponsor a young scientist, explore a collaboration, or learn more about our work, we'd be glad to hear from you.
Students & researchers — interested in quantum communication, software-defined radio, or coding theory? Get in touch — we'd love to hear from you.