On-chip source-device-independent quantum random number generator

Lang Li; Minglu Cai; Tao Wang; Zicong Tan; Peng Huang; Kan Wu; Guihua Zeng

doi:10.1364/PRJ.506960

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 7, 1379(2024)

On-chip source-device-independent quantum random number generator On the Cover

Lang Li1...2,3,†, Minglu Cai1,†, Tao Wang1,2,3,†, Zicong Tan1,2,3, Peng Huang1,2,3, Kan Wu1, and Guihua Zeng1,2,34,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Institute of Quantum Sensing and Information Processing, School of Sensing Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

³Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Hefei National Laboratory, Shanghai 201315, China

⁴Shanghai Xun Tai Quantech Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200241, China

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