Genuine certifiable randomness from a black-box
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2603.00401 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 28 Feb 2026] Title:Genuine certifiable randomness from a black-box Authors:Liam P. McGuinness View a PDF of the paper titled Genuine certifiable randomness from a black-box, by Liam P. McGuinness View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Randomness is intrinsic to quantum mechanics; the outcome of a measurement on a quantum state is a random variable. This feature has been applied to randomness certification, where one party must decide whether the data they receive is truly random. However, existing demonstrations are not black-box, to avoid falsely certifying deterministic data, assumptions must be made on how the data was generated. Here we demonstrate genuine randomness certification in the black-box setting -- one in which no deterministic adversary, even with unlimited computational power, will succeed in getting their data certified. We use it to provably generate random numbers using only measurements on single particle states and without a random seed. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2603.00401 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2603.00401v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.00401 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Liam McGuinness [view email] [v1] Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:22:52 UTC (3,969 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Genuine certifiable randomness from a black-box, by Liam P. McGuinnessView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-03 Change to browse by: math math-ph math.MP References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)