Quantum random-number generator based on a photon-number-resolving detector

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ren, Min ^a   Wu, E ^a   Liang, Yan ^a   Jian, Yi ^a   Wu, Guang ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERATION RATE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; NUMBER GENERATOR; PHOTON FLUX; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING DETECTOR; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; PHOTON-NUMBER-RESOLVING DETECTORS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBERS; SYSTEM CLOCK;

LIGHT SOURCES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NUMBER THEORY; PHOTONS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79953825929     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.023820     Document Type: Article

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