UNBIASED QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION BASED ON SQUEEZED VACUUM STATE

In this paper, a new quantum random number generation scheme which is implemented by measuring quantum noise of the squeezed vacuum state is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the Shannon entropy is employed to measure randomness of the generated random numbers. In addition, some characteristics of the generated random numbers are investigated. To reach the pure quantum randomness, an extraction approach based on universal hash functions for the generated quantum random numbers is presented. Results show that the proposed scheme based on squeezed vacuum state has remarkable advantages over the one associated with the vacuum state.