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My point is that you don't need an extravagant Quantum source for randomness, and you definitely don't need high throughput. It's really a solution looking for
by commandersaki 2y ago
My point is that you don't need an extravagant Quantum source for randomness, and you definitely don't need high throughput. It's really a solution looking for a problem.
Also, I've seen numerous people working in the Quantum space claim that metastability is a quantum effect of ring oscillators, but very doubtful and the literature around it never mentions the q-word.
- kurikuri 2y agoMost people do not need high throughput entropy sources, sure. But the people who do pay quite a bit for that functionality. I also haven’t seen any oft-referred literature describing metastability do so using a quantum-physics context. The metastability itself is a product of quantum behavior but has been described well enough without needing it. Depending on what you’re exploiting randomness-wise (like the metastability or the oscillation period length), the type of physical description you use to analyze the noise source changes quite a bit. For most ring oscillator work, I prefer to look at the work near the 2000’s by Ali Hajimiri, none of which is in terms of quantum anything.