NANOSYSTEMS: PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MATHEMATICS, 2013, 4 (4), P. 550–554
INVESTIGATION OF QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION BASED ON SPACETIME DIVISION OF PHOTONS
A. E. Ivanova – St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia; newiva@mail.ru
V. I. Egorov – St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia; egorovvl@gmail.com
S. A. Chivilikhin – St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia; sergey.chivilikhin@gmail.com
A.V. Gleim – St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia; aglejm@yandex.ru
In this paper we investigate a quantum random number generator based on the splitting of a beam of laser emitted light. Statistics of random numbers that depend on a parameter characterizing the symmetry of the beam splitter is theoretically analyzed and simulated. Degree of deviation of the obtained distribution from the uniform random distribution is investigated on a basis of series of statistical tests.
Keywords: quantum random number generation, beam splitter, random number distribution.
PACS 03.67.a