ScholarlyArticle: "Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor" (2025)
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08737-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08737-1</a><p>Re: different - probably much less expensive - approaches to RNG;<p>From "Cloudflare: New source of randomness just dropped" (2005) <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321797">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321797</a> :<p>> <i>Another source of random entropy better than a wall of lava lamps:</i><p>>>> <i>"100-Gbit/s Integrated Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations" <a href="https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330" rel="nofollow">https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330</a> </i><p>100Gbit/s is faster than qualifying noise from a 56 qubit quantum computer?<p>>> <i>google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests</i><p>There's yet no USB or optical interconnect RNG based on quantum vacuum fluctuations, though.