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


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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.

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S. N. Molotkov

Institute of Solid State Physics; Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation; Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics

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Email: sergei.molotkov@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432; Moscow, 121552; Moscow, 119991

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