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A well-balanced detector with high sensitivity and low noise is presented in this paper. The two-stage amplification structure is used to increase electronic gain while keeping an effective bandwidth of about 70 MHz. In order to further…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-13 Qi-Ming Lu , Qi Shen , Yuan Cao , Sheng-Kai Liao , Cheng-Zhi Peng

We describe a continuous variables coherent states quantum key distribution system working at 1550 nm, and entirely made of standard fiber optics and telecom components, such as integrated-optics modulators, couplers and fast InGaAs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jérôme Lodewyck , Thierry Debuisschert , Rosa Tualle-Brouri , Philippe Grangier

We propose a groundbreaking random number generator that achieves truly uniform, independent, and identically distributed (IID) randomness by integrating Quantum Permutation Pads (QPP) with system jitter--derived entropy, herein called…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Randy Kuang , Dafu Lou

In this work we explore monolithic opto-electronic integration platform for significant down-scaling of input-referred noise in custom designed low-noise analog front-end used for balanced photodetection. The performance of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Dinka Milovančev , Nemanja Vokić

A central challenge in quantum error correction is identifying powerful quantum codes tailored to specific hardware and determining their error thresholds above which quantum information is unprotected. This problem is hard because we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Gaurav Gyawali , Henry Shackleton , Zhu-Xi Luo , Michael Lawler

We demonstrate a high bit-rate quantum random number generator by interferometric detection of phase diffusion in a gain-switched DFB laser diode. Gain switching at few-GHz frequencies produces a train of bright pulses with nearly equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Abellan , W. Amaya , M. Jofre , M. Curty , A. Acin , J. Capmany , V. Pruneri , M. W. Mitchell

Connecting superconducting quantum processors to telecommunications-wavelength quantum networks is critically necessary to enable distributed quantum computing, secure communications, and other applications. Optically-mediated entanglement…

Future optical quantum networks could benefit from single photons that couple well to atoms, for realizing, e.g., quantum memories and deterministic photonic gates. However, the efficient generation of such photons remains a difficult…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Omri Davidson , Ohad Yogev , Eilon Poem , Ofer Firstenberg

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…

We discuss excess noise contributions of a practical balanced homodyne detector in Gaussian-modulated coherent-state (GMCS) quantum key distribution (QKD). We point out the key generated from the original realistic model of GMCS QKD may not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yue-Meng Chi , Bing Qi , Wen Zhu , Li Qian , Hoi-Kwong Lo , Sun-Hyun Youn , A. I. Lvovsky , Liang Tian

Quantum random number generators play a vital role in securing communication and encryption. In the present work, we have produced bright twin beams using four-wave mixing in a double-{\Lambda} configuration in rubidium-85 vapor and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Anirudh Shekar , Chirang R. Patel , Jerin A. Thachil , Ashok Kumar

How much cryptographically-secure randomness can be extracted from a quantum state? This fundamental question probes the absolute limits of quantum random number generation (QRNG) and yet, despite the technological maturity of QRNGs, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Kriss Gutierrez Anco , Tristan Nemoz , Peter Brown

Quantum random number generators can provide genuine randomness by appealing to the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. In general, a physical generator contains two parts---a randomness source and its readout. The source is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Zhu Cao , Hongyi Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Xiongfeng Ma

In this work, a comparative study between three fundamental entropic measures, differential entropy, quantum Renyi entropy, and quantum collision entropy for a hybrid quantum channel (HQC) was investigated, where hybrid quantum noise (HQN)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Mouli Chakraborty , Subhash Chandra , Avishek Nag , Trung Q. Duong , Merouane Debbah , Anshu Mukherjee

The majority of Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) are designed as converters of a continuous quantum random variable into a discrete classical random bit value. For the resulting random bit sequence to be minimally biased, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Pavel Lougovski , Raphael Pooser

Single quantum dots are solid-state emitters which mimic two-level atoms but with a highly enhanced spontaneous emission rate. A single quantum dot is the basis for a potentially excellent single photon source. One outstanding problem is…

Quantum noise fundamentally limits the utility of near-term quantum devices, making error mitigation essential for practical quantum computation. While traditional quantum error correction codes require substantial qubit overhead and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Karan Kendre

Traditional method for measuring continuous-variable quantum entanglement relies on balanced homodyne detections, which are sensitive to vacuum quantum noise coupled in through losses resulted from many factors such as detector's quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jiamin Li , Yuhong Liu , Nan Huo , Liang Cui , Sheng Feng , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

Random numbers are an essential resource to many applications, including cryptography and Monte Carlo simulations. Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) represent the ultimate source of randomness, as the numbers are obtained by sampling…

Quantum random number generators (QRNG) represent an advanced solution for randomness generation, essential in every cryptographic applications. In this context, integrated arrays of single photon detectors have promising applications as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Davide G. Marangon , Giuseppe Vallone , Ugo Zanforlin , Paolo Villoresi