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A team that included researchers at a US bank says it has created a protocol that can generate certified truly random numbers, opening the possibility that current generation quantum computers can be ...

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Researchers developed a fiber-optic quantum random number generator that uses single-photon path superposition and a validated stochastic model to guarantee high-quality quantum randomness. Operating ...