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Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

High-Order Single-Photon W-states for Random Number Generation

Markus Gräfe, René Heilmann, Armando Pérez-Leija, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Alexander Szameit

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally realize the generation of high-order photon encoded W-states involving up to 16 optical modes. Furthermore, we exploit the inherent probabilistic properties of these multipartite entangled W-states for generating genuine random numbers.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2014.jtu4a.36

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