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Continuous-variable quantum cryptographic systems, including random number generation and key distribution, are often based on coherent detection. The essence of the security analysis lies in the randomness quantification. Previous analyses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Hongyi Zhou , Pei Zeng , Mohsen Razavi , Xiongfeng Ma

We demonstrate a quantum random number generator based on the random nature of the phase difference between two independent laser sources. The speed of random bit generation is determined by the photodetector bandwidth and the linewidth of…

Measurement incompatibility stipulates the existence of quantum measurements that cannot be carried out simultaneously on single systems. We show that the set of input-output probabilities obtained from d-dimensional classical systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Debashis Saha , Debarshi Das , Arun Kumar Das , Bihalan Bhattacharya , A. S. Majumdar

We present a new method for describing quantum measurements in relativistic systems that applies (i) to any QFT and for any field-detector coupling, (ii) to the measurement of any observable, and (iii) to arbitrary size, shape and motion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

Precision control of a quantum system requires accurate determination of the effective system Hamiltonian. We develop a method for estimating the Hamiltonian parameters for some unknown two-state system and providing uncertainty bounds on…

Relativistic quantum mechanics can be considered to have begun with a search for wave equations corresponding to each intrinsic spin. However, relativistic quantum physics differs fundamentally from the non-relativistic wave mechanics. It…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Urjit A. Yajnik

While quantum speed-up in solving certain decision problems by a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer has been promised, a timely research interest includes how far one can reduce the resource requirement to demonstrate a provable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Jacob Miller , Stephen Sanders , Akimasa Miyake

Quantum decoherence refers to the phenomenon when the interaction of a quantum system with its environment results in the degradation of quantum coherence. Decoherence is considered to be the most popular mechanism responsible for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohd Shoaib Qureshi , Tabish Qureshi

Randomness certification is a foundational and practical aspect of quantum information science, essential for securing quantum communication protocols. Traditionally, these protocols have been implemented and validated with a single…

Quantum many-body systems provide a unique platform for exploring the rich interplay between chaos, randomness, and complexity. In a recently proposed paradigm known as deep thermalization, random quantum states of system A are generated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Wai-Keong Mok , Tobias Haug , Adam L. Shaw , Manuel Endres , John Preskill

The application for random numbers is ubiquitous. We experimentally build a well-studied quantum random number generator from homodyne measurements on the quadrature of the vacuum fluctuations. Semi-device-independence in this random number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Megha Shrivastava , Mohit Mittal , Isha Kumari , Venkat Abhignan

Entanglement is an important resource that allows quantum technologies to go beyond the classically possible. There are many ways quantum systems can be entangled, ranging from the archetypal two-qubit case to more exotic scenarios of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Nicolai Friis , Giuseppe Vitagliano , Mehul Malik , Marcus Huber

It is shown that an ideal measurement of a one-particle wave packet state of a relativistic quantum field in Minkowski spacetime enables superluminal signalling. The result holds for a measurement that takes place over an intervention…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 Dionigi M. T. Benincasa , Leron Borsten , Michel Buck , Fay Dowker

A new formulation of quantum mechanics is developed which does not require the concept of the wave-particle duality. Rather than assigning probabilities to outcomes, probabilities are instead assigned to entire fine-grained histories. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Andrew Gray

It is widely known that `collapse of the wave function' on a quantum system A may be brought about by an interaction with another quantum system B. We will prove that this is not just a possible, but a necessary consequence of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bas Janssens

The accurate and reliable description of measurement devices is a central problem in both observing uniquely non-classical behaviors and realizing quantum technologies from powerful computing to precision metrology. To date quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Aonan Zhang , Jie Xie , Huichao Xu , Kaimin Zheng , Han Zhang , Yiu-Tung Poon , Vlatko Vedral , Lijian Zhang

Ultimately, any explanation of quantum measurement must be extendable to relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM), since many precisely confirmed experimental results follow from quantum field theory (QFT), which is based on RQM. Certainly, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ed Seidewitz

It is shown that having degenerate ground states over the domain of the wavefunction of a system is a sufficient condition for a quantum system to act as a measuring apparatus for the system. Measurements are then instances of spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 Partha Ghose

Randomness, mainly in the form of random numbers, is the fundamental prerequisite for the security of many cryptographic tasks. Quantum randomness can be extracted even if adversaries are fully aware of the protocol and even control the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-24 Wen-Bo Liu , Yu-Shuo Lu , Yao Fu , Si-Cheng Huang , Ze-Jie Yin , Kun Jiang , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

Quantum hypothesis testing plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies, making decisions or drawing conclusions about quantum systems based on observed data. Recently, quantum control techniques have been successfully applied to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Han Xu , Benran Wang , Haidong Yuan , Xin Wang