Abstract

The entropy or randomness source is an essential ingredient in random number generation. Quantum random number generators generally require well modeled and calibrated light sources, such as a laser, to generate randomness. With uncharacterized light sources, such as sunlight or an uncharacterized laser, genuine randomness is practically hard to be quantified or extracted owing to its unknown or complicated structure. By exploiting a recently proposed source-independent randomness generation protocol, we theoretically modify it by considering practical issues and experimentally realize the modified scheme with an uncharacterized laser and a sunlight source. The extracted randomness is guaranteed to be secure independent of its source and the randomness generation speed reaches 1 Mbps, three orders of magnitude higher than the original realization. Our result signifies the power of quantum technology in randomness generation and paves the way to high-speed semi-self-testing quantum random number generators with practical light sources.

Details

Title
Quantum random number generation with uncharacterized laser and sunlight
Author
Yu-Huai, Li 1 ; Han, Xuan 1 ; Cao, Yuan 1 ; Xiao, Yuan 2 ; Zheng-Ping, Li 1 ; Jian-Yu, Guan 1 ; Yin, Juan 1 ; Zhang, Qiang 1 ; Ma, Xiongfeng 3 ; Cheng-Zhi, Peng 1 ; Jian-Wei, Pan 1 

 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China; CAS Center for Excellence and Synergetic Innovation Center in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai, China 
 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China; CAS Center for Excellence and Synergetic Innovation Center in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai, China; Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 
 Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 
Pages
1-5
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Nov 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20566387
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2314539796
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.