Quantum Random Number Generators: cheaper, faster and more secure

Project Information

QRANGE

Grant agreement ID: 820405

DOI 10.3030/820405

Project closed

EC signature date 22 August 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 31 March 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost € 3 187 282,50

EU contribution € 3 187 282,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE
Switzerland

Deliverables

Documents, reports (16)

Quantum Noise Random Number Generator Architecture

Recommendations of how to design a quantum entropy source in order to generate unpredictable private and secret random numbers

Rigorous entropy certification procedures for all three QRNG architectures
Physical modelling to certify the generation of randomness

Summary of arguments why QRNGs offer a distinct approach to certify the generation of unpredictable private and secret random numbers

Final project report
Mid-Term project report
Report on QRNGs of WP3, WP4 and WP5 compliance with AIS31

Report on QRNGs of WP3 WP4 and WP5 compliance with AIS31

Communication kit, Project brochures, & project-branded templates
Project website on-line and linked to Quantum Technology Flagship portal
Write review paper on QRNG modelling approaches
Mid-term report on Dissemination and Exploitation activities as well as updated PEDR
Document with requirements and system architectures.
Final report on Dissemination & Exploitation activities & Outlook

Final report on Dissemination Exploitation activities Outlook

Deterministic randomness extractors for quantum randomness sources
New semi-DI and DI protocols for QRNG

New semiDI and DI protocols for QRNG

Report on applications in QKD and HPC
Wrap-up white paper on QRNG certification

Wrapup white paper on QRNG certification

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (27)

Single-Particle Entanglement

Author(s): Stefano Azzini, Sonia Mazzucchi, Valter Moretti, Davide Pastorello, Lorenzo Pavesi
Published in: Advanced Quantum Technologies, Issue 3, 2020, Page(s) 2000014, ISSN 2511-9044
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/qute.202000014

Near-ideal spontaneous photon sources in silicon quantum photonics.

Author(s): Stefano Paesani; Massimo Borghi; Stefano Signorini; Alexandre Maïnos; Lorenzo Pavesi; Anthony Laing
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11, 2020, Page(s) 2505, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16187-8

Estimating the privacy of quantum-random numbers

Author(s): Seiler, Johannes; Strohm, Thomas; Schleich, Wolfgang P.
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 22, 2020, Page(s) 093063, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.18725/oparu-34102

Certified quantum random number generator based on single-photon entanglement

Author(s): Leone, Nicolò; Azzini, Stefano; Mazzucchi, Sonia; Moretti, Valter; Pavesi, Lorenzo
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) 034011, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: The American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.17.034011

An optical chip for self-testing quantum random number generation

Author(s): Nicolò Leone; Davide Rusca; Stefano Azzini; Giorgio Fontana; Fabio Acerbi; Alberto Gola; Alessandro Tontini; Nicola Massari; Hugo Zbinden; Lorenzo Pavesi
Published in: APL Photonics, Vol. 5, No 101301 (2020), Issue 5, 2020, Page(s) 101301, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0022526

TROT: A Three-Edge Ring Oscillator Based True Random Number Generator With Time-to-Digital Conversion

Author(s): Miloš Grujić, Ingrid Verbauwhede
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2022, ISSN 1549-8328
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tcsi.2022.3158022

Device-independent quantum key distribution with asymmetric CHSH inequalities

Author(s): Erik Woodhead, Antonio Acín, Stefano Pironio
Published in: Quantum, 2021, ISSN 2521-327X
Publisher: Quantum
DOI: 10.22331/q-2021-04-26-443

Quantum Entropy Model of an Integrated Quantum-Random-Number-Generator Chip

Author(s): Gaëtan Gras; Anthony Martin; Jeong Woon Choi; Félix Bussières
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.15.054048

Bell-inequality violation by entangled single-photon states generated from a laser, an LED, or a halogen lamp

Author(s): Matteo Pasini; Nicolò Leone; Sonia Mazzucchi; Valter Moretti; Davide Pastorello; Lorenzo Pavesi
Published in: physical review A, Issue A102, 2020, Page(s) 063708, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: The American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.102.063708

Bounding the Sets of Classical and Quantum Correlations in Networks

Author(s): Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Rafael Rabelo, Łukasz Rudnicki, Rafael Chaves, Daniel Cavalcanti, Miguel Navascués, and Antonio Acín
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 123/14, 2019, Page(s) 140503, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.140503

Self-testing quantum random-number generator based on an energy bound

Author(s): Davide Rusca, Thomas van Himbeeck, Anthony Martin, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Weixu Shi, Stefano Pironio, Nicolas Brunner, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 100/6, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.062338

Experimental Low-Latency Device-Independent Quantum Randomness

Author(s): Yanbao Zhang, Lynden K. Shalm, Joshua C. Bienfang, Martin J. Stevens, Michael D. Mazurek, Sae Woo Nam, Carlos Abellán, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan W. Mitchell, Honghao Fu, Carl A. Miller, Alan Mink, Emanuel Knill
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 124/1, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.010505

Continuous-variable entropic uncertainty relations

Author(s): Anaelle Hertz, Nicolas J Cerf
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Issue 52/17, 2019, Page(s) 173001, ISSN 1751-8113
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ab03f3

Quantum violations in the Instrumental scenario and their relations to the Bell scenario

Author(s): Thomas Van Himbeeck, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Stefano Pironio, Ravishankar Ramanathan, Ana Belén Sainz, Elie Wolfe
Published in: Quantum, Issue 3, 2019, Page(s) 186, ISSN 2521-327X
Publisher: Quantum
DOI: 10.22331/q-2019-09-16-186

Multicopy uncertainty observable inducing a symplectic-invariant uncertainty relation in position and momentum phase space

Author(s): Anaelle Hertz, Ognyan Oreshkov, Nicolas J. Cerf
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 100/5, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.052112

Upper bound on certifiable randomness from a quantum black-box device

Author(s): Marie Ioannou, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Nicolas Brunner
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 99/5, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.99.052338

Semi-device-independent characterization of quantum measurements under a minimum overlap assumption

Author(s): Weixu Shi, Yu Cai, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Brunner
Published in: Physical Review A, 2019, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.042108

Bell Nonlocality Is Not Sufficient for the Security of Standard Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

Author(s): Máté Farkas, Maria Balanzó-Juandó, Karol Łukanowski, Jan Kołodyński, Antonio Acín
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 127/5, 2021, Page(s) 050503, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.050503

Geometric interpretation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequalityof nonmaximally entangled states

Author(s): Johannes Seiler, Thomas Strohm, and Wolfgang P. Schleich
Published in: Physical Review A, 2021, ISSN 2469-9934
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.032218

Quantum Technologies in the Telecommunications Industry

Author(s): Vicente Martin; Juan P. Brito; Carmen Escribano; Marco Menchetti; Catherine White; Andrew Lord; Felix Wissel; Matthias Gunkel; Paulette Gavignet; Naveena Genay; Olivier Le Moult; Carlos Abellan; Antonio Manzalini; Antonio Pastor-Perales; Victor Lopez; Diego R. Lopez
Published in: EPJ Quantum Technology, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 2196-0763
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-021-00108-9

Entropy certification of a realistic QRNG based on single-particle entanglement

Author(s): Mazzucchi, Sonia; Leone, Nicolò; Azzini, Stefano; Pavesi, Lorenzo; Moretti, Valter
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue A104, 2021, Page(s) 022416, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: The American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.104.022416

Maximal randomness from partially entangled states

Author(s): Erik Woodhead, Jędrzej Kaniewski, Boris Bourdoncle, Alexia Salavrakos, Joseph Bowles, Antonio Acín, Remigiusz Augusiak
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 2/4, 2020, Page(s) 042028(R), ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.2.042028

Gadget structures in proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem

Author(s): Ravishankar Ramanathan, Monika Rosicka, Karol Horodecki, Stefano Pironio, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki
Published in: Quantum, 2020, ISSN 2521-327X
Publisher: Quantum
DOI: 10.22331/q-2020-08-14-308

On-chip heralded single photon sources

Author(s): Stefano Signorini; Lorenzo Pavesi
Published in: AVS Quantum Science, Issue 2, 2020, Page(s) 041701, ISSN 2639-0213
Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC
DOI: 10.1116/5.0018594

Fast and simple quantum state estimation

Author(s): Daniel Uzcátegui Contreras, Gabriel Senno and Dardo Goyeneche
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Issue 54, 2021, Page(s) 085302, ISSN 1751-8121
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/abdba2

Correlations in entanglement-assisted prepare-and-measure scenarios

Author(s): Armin Tavakoli, Jef Pauwels, Erik Woodhead, Stefano Pironio
Published in: PRX Quantum, 2021, ISSN 2691-3399
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/prxquantum.2.040357

Informationally restricted correlations: a general framework for classical and quantum systems

Author(s): Armin Tavakoli, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, Erik Woodhead, Stefano Pironio
Published in: Quantum, 2022, ISSN 2521-327X
Publisher: Quantum
DOI: 10.22331/q-2022-01-05-620

Other (7)

Simple and practical DIQKD security analysis via BB84-type uncertainty relations and Pauli correlation constraints

Author(s): Michele Masini, Stefano Pironio, Erik Woodhead
Published in: arxiv, 2021
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.08894

Practical No-Signalling proof Randomness Amplification using Hardy paradoxes and its experimental implementation

Author(s): Ravishankar Ramanathan, Michał Horodecki, Hammad Anwer, Stefano Pironio, Karol Horodecki, Marcus Grünfeld, Sadiq Muhammad, Mohamed Bourennane, Paweł Horodecki
Published in: arxiv, 2018
Publisher: arvix
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.11648

Fast self-testing Quantum Random Number Generator based on homodyne detection

Author(s): Davide Rusca, Hamid Tebyanian, Anthony Martin, Hugo Zbinden
Published in: arXiv, 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Correlations and randomness generation based on energy constraints

Author(s): Thomas Van Himbeeck, Stefano Pironio
Published in: arXiv, 2019
Publisher: arXiv

Device-independent quantum key distribution with single-photon sources

Author(s): J. Kołodyński, A. Máttar, P. Skrzypczyk, E. Woodhead, D. Cavalcanti, K. Banaszek, and A. Acín
Published in: arXiv, 2020
Publisher: arXiv

Entanglement in prepare-and-measure scenarios: many questions, a few answers

Author(s): Jef Pauwels, Armin Tavakoli, Erik Woodhead, Stefano Pironio
Published in: arxiv, 2021
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.00442

Demonstration that Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering requires more than one bit of faster-than-light information transmission

Author(s): Yu Xiang, Michael D. Mazurek, Joshua C. Bienfang, Michael A. Wayne, Carlos Abellán, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan W. Mitchell, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Qiongyi He, Martin J. Stevens, Lynden K. Shalm, Howard M. Wiseman
Published in: arXiv, 2021
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.13519