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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2003
Filed:
May. 09, 2000
Wolfgang Dultz, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Gisela Dultz, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Eric Hildebrandt, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Heidrun Schmitzer, Regensburg, DE;
Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn, DE;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for generating a random number on a quantum-mechanics machanics basis using the fundamentally random choice of path of a quantum particle on a beam splitter. Detectors are provided for capturing the particles being assigned to the outputs of the beam splitter. The detectors or their counting events represent different number values of the random number, or random number sequence. The generation of a multi-particle state in the output channel of the beam splitter, and thus of several particles which impact on a detector (D , D ′, D , D ′), significantly and advantageously increases the response probability of the detector and thus the probability of obtaining a useable counting event for every multi-particle state generated by the particle source. In this way a random sequence can be obtained more rapidly and more reliably than with single-particle detection.