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How do you know that a quantum source is random?

TYPETheor./Math. Physics Seminar
Speaker:Renan Gross
Affiliation:Technion
Date:23.11.2014
Time:14:30
Location:Lewiner Seminar Room (412)
Abstract:
Building a true random number generator is (theoretically) easy with quantum mechanics. But if your arch-nemesis gave you a device which he claims produces random numbers, how could you verify that he speaks the truth?

We present a randomness verification method based on quantum xor games, initially developed by Roger Colbeck and extended over the past few years. We then show how a small amount of initial randomness can be used with untrusted quantum devices in order to produce high min-entropy strings of unbounded length.