A comprehensive review of quantum random number generators: Concepts, classification and the origin of randomness

V Mannalatha, S Mishra, A Pathak - Quantum Information Processing, 2023 - Springer
Random numbers are central to cryptography and various other tasks. The intrinsic
probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics has allowed us to construct a large number of …

Quantum randomness in cryptography—a survey of cryptosystems, RNG-based ciphers, and QRNGs

A Saini, A Tsokanos, R Kirner - Information, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cryptography is the study and practice of secure communication with digital data and
focuses on confidentiality, integrity, and authentication. Random number generators (RNGs) …

Certified randomness from untrusted sources and uncharacterized measurements

X Lin, R Wang, S Wang, ZQ Yin, W Chen, GC Guo… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Generating random numbers plays an important role in many scientific applications.
Compared to pseudorandom number generators, a quantum device is capable of …

Quantum random number generation based on a perovskite light emitting diode

J Argillander, A Alarcón, C Bao, C Kuang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The recent development of perovskite light emitting diodes (PeLEDs) has the potential to
revolutionize the fields of optical communication and lighting devices, due to their simplicity …

Source-independent quantum random number generator against tailored detector blinding attacks

WB Liu, YS Lu, Y Fu, SC Huang, ZJ Yin, K Jiang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Imperfection-insensitivity quantum random number generator with untrusted daily illumination

X Lin, R Wang, S Wang, ZQ Yin, W Chen, DY He… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) promise secure randomness generation
based on the foundational unpredictability of quantum mechanics. However, the …

Realization of a source-device-independent quantum random number generator secured by nonlocal dispersion cancellation

JN Zhang, R Yang, X Li, CW Sun, YC Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) can provide genuine randomness by
exploiting the intrinsic probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, which play important roles …

Quantum sampling for finite key rates in high dimensional quantum cryptography

K Yao, WO Krawec, J Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has been shown recently that the framework of quantum sampling, as introduced by
Bouman and Fehr, can lead to new entropic uncertainty relations highly applicable to finite …

Source-independent quantum random number generators with integrated silicon photonics

Y Du, X Hua, Z Zhao, X Sun, Z Zhang, X **ao… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
Random numbers play a crucial role in numerous scientific applications. Source-
independent quantum random number generators (SI-QRNGs) can offer true randomness …

Mutually testing source-device-independent quantum random number generator

J Cheng, J Qin, S Liang, J Li, Z Yan, X Jia… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Quantum random numbers have an incomparable advantage over pseudo-random numbers
since randomness originates from intrinsic property of quantum mechanics. The generation …