Quantum random, unpredictable "true random numbers" | informal science

● Eating, sleeping, playing games... of course, scientific research, is the daily life of Xiao Mo Meow and Little Orange. As a result of the Shanghai Research Institute of the University of Science and Technology of China, they do not consciously have more "quantum" shadows when they eat and play games. Let's take a look at their daily life (da) life (da) love (sha) fun (sha), and by the way, understand the scientific research work that happens around them.

In this "informal science" series, you will learn: non-field-of-view imaging technology that makes light "bend", computing power quantum computers, truly unpredictable random numbers, unbreakable quantum communication, ultracold atoms at very low temperatures, and gravimeters, light clocks, and so on that use ultracold atoms.

Our second stop: quantum random numbers.

Random phenomena and random numbers, everyone must have heard of it. The number of randomly generated points by rolling the dice, the random number generated by the computer,...... Are these "random numbers" really completely random and unpredictable? And what is a quantum random number, and what does it have to do with quantum phenomena?

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