S. N. Molotkov, “On the limiting characteristics of quantum random number generators at various clusterings of photocounts”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2017, Volume 105, Issue 6,Pages <nobr>374

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On the limiting characteristics of quantum random number generators at various clusterings of photocounts

S. N. Molotkov^abc

^a Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
^b Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
^c L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: Various methods for the clustering of photocounts constituting a sequence of random numbers are considered. It is shown that the clustering of photocounts resulting in the Fermi–Dirac distribution makes it possible to achieve the theoretical limit of the random number generation rate.

Received: 19.12.2016
Revised: 07.02.2017

DOI: 10.7868/S0370274X17060108