Fast quantum-optical random-number generators

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Durt, Thomas ^a   Belmonte, Carlos ^b   Lamoureux, Louis Philippe ^c   Panajotov, Krassimir ^b,d   Van Den Berghe, Frederik ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE TEST; DEGREE OF RANDOMNESS; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGIES; RANDOM BITS;

RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

NUMBER THEORY;

EID: 84874512816     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.022339     Document Type: Article

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