Where can I get random qubits?

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#1 Mon, 12/05/2008 - 20:12

Where can I get random qubits?

Where can I get a sequence of random qubits (without investing in a laboratory!)? It is critical that these be random bits sampled from an unbiased quantum phenomenon, not simply random numbers.

I had been using http://www.randomnumbers.info/content/Download.htm but they appear to no longer be functioning.

Fri, 30/05/2008 - 17:18

How are you going to

How are you going to receive, store, and process your random qubits without a laboratory? Or do you just want random (classical) bits? If you truly want random qubits, you could simply take half of a maximally entangled pair (keeping the other half well hidden). If you just want random c-bits, then I do not see how random bits extracted from unbiased quantum measurements differ from any other source of (truly) random bits.