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Quantum computers solve intractable problems which classically require an exponentially long time to compute. With the development of large-scale experiments that claim quantum advantage, a vital issue has now emerged. What are the errors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ned Goodman , Alexander S. Dellios , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

Semi-device independent (Semi-DI) quantum random number generators (QRNG) gained attention for security applications, offering an excellent trade-off between security and generation rate. This paper presents a proof-of-principle time-bin…

High-performance streams of (pseudo) random numbers are crucial for the efficient implementation for countless stochastic algorithms, most importantly, Monte Carlo simulations and molecular dynamics simulations with stochastic thermostats.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-30 Markus Manssen , Martin Weigel , Alexander K. Hartmann

Quality randomness is fundamental to cryptographic operations but on embedded systems good sources are (seemingly) hard to find. Rather than use expensive custom hardware, our ERHARD-RNG Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) utilizes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jacob Grycel , Robert J. Walls

The power of quantum computers is still somewhat speculative. While they are certainly faster than classical ones at some tasks, the class of problems they can efficiently solve has not been mapped definitively onto known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 N. H. Nguyen , E. C. Behrman , M. A. Moustafa , J. E. Steck

The past decade has witnessed significant advancements in quantum hardware, encompassing improvements in speed, qubit quantity, and quantum volume-a metric defining the maximum size of a quantum circuit effectively implementable on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Yaswitha Gujju , Atsushi Matsuo , Rudy Raymond

Random number generation is an enabling technology for fields as varied as Monte Carlo simulations and quantum information science. An important application is a secure quantum key distribution (QKD) system; here, we propose and demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Qiang Zhou , Raju Valivarthi , Caleb John , Wolfgang Tittel

There has been considerable progress in the design and construction of quantum annealing devices. However, a conclusive detection of quantum speedup over traditional silicon-based machines remains elusive, despite multiple careful studies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Helmut G. Katzgraber , Firas Hamze , Zheng Zhu , Andrew J. Ochoa , H. Munoz-Bauza

Machine learning (ML) frameworks rely heavily on pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) for tasks such as data shuffling, weight initialization, dropout, and optimization. Yet, the statistical quality and reproducibility of these…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Benjamin A. Antunes

The pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs), sampling algorithms, and algorithms for generating random integers in some common statistical packages and programming languages are unnecessarily inaccurate, by an amount that may matter for…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-29 Philip B. Stark , Kellie Ottoboni

Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are able to generate numbers that are certifiably random, even to an agent who holds some side-information. Such systems typically require that the elements being used are precisely calibrated and…

Quantum information processing offers promising advances for a wide range of fields and applications, provided that we can efficiently assess the performance of the control applied in candidate systems. That is, we must be able to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 Christopher Granade , Christopher Ferrie , D. G. Cory

In the study of quantum random number generators (QRNGs), the problem of random signal digitization is often not considered in detail. However, in the context of a standalone QRNG device, this issue is very important. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Roman Shakhovoy

Surrogate models are ubiquitously used in industry and academia to efficiently approximate given black box functions. As state-of-the-art methods from classical machine learning frequently struggle to solve this problem accurately for the…

Quantum random number generation (QRNG) relies on the inherent unpredictability of quantum mechanical phenomena to efficiently generate high-quality random numbers that can be used in a wide range of cryptography and simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Conrad Strydom , Mark Tame

Current technological advancements of quantum computers highlight the need for application-driven, practical and well-defined methods of benchmarking their performance. As the existing NISQ device's quality of two-qubit gate errors rate is…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Krzysztof Kurowski , Piotr Rydlichowski , Konrad Wojciechowski , Tomasz Pecyna , Mateusz Slysz

Random number generation is an important task in a wide variety of critical applications including cryptographic algorithms, scientific simulations, and industrial testing tools. True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) produce truly random…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 F. Nisa Bostancı , Ataberk Olgun , Lois Orosa , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Jeremie S. Kim , Hasan Hassan , Oğuz Ergin , Onur Mutlu

Random number generators (RNGs) are notoriously challenging to build and test, especially for cryptographic applications. While statistical tests cannot definitively guarantee an RNG's output quality, they are a powerful verification tool…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Cameron Foreman , Richie Yeung , Florian J. Curchod

Quantum computing (QC) is anticipated to provide a speedup over classical HPC approaches for specific problems in optimization, simulation, and machine learning. With the advances in quantum computing toward practical applications, the need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Jernej Rudi Finžgar , Philipp Ross , Leonhard Hölscher , Johannes Klepsch , Andre Luckow

This work considers the deployment of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) on graphics processing units (GPUs), developing an approach based on the xorgens generator to rapidly produce pseudo-random numbers of high statistical quality.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Nimalan Nandapalan , Richard P. Brent , Lawrence M. Murray , Alistair Rendell