--- _id: '9255' abstract: - lang: eng text: Our ability to trust that a random number is truly random is essential for fields as diverse as cryptography and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics. Existing solutions both come with drawbacks—device-independent quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are highly impractical and standard semi-device-independent QRNGs are limited to a specific physical implementation and level of trust. Here we propose a framework for semi-device-independent randomness certification, using a source of trusted vacuum in the form of a signal shutter. It employs a flexible set of assumptions and levels of trust, allowing it to be applied in a wide range of physical scenarios involving both quantum and classical entropy sources. We experimentally demonstrate our protocol with a photonic setup and generate secure random bits under three different assumptions with varying degrees of security and resulting data rates. acknowledgement: We would like to thank Robert Fickler for discussions about the experimental realization and Marek Sýs for running the NIST randomness test on the data we acquired in the experiment. We would like to thank Ugo Zanforlin, Gerald Buller, Daniel White, and Cristian Bonato for their help with the experiment. M. Pivoluska, M. Plesch, and M.M. acknowledge Czech-Austrian project MultiQUEST (I3053-N27 and GF17-33780L). M. Pivoluska and M. Plesch additionally acknowledge the support of VEGA project 2/0136/19. M.F. acknowledges support from the Polish NCN grant Sonata UMO-2014/14/E/ST2/00020, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program ERC AdG CERQUTE (grant agreement No 834266), the State Research Agency (AEI) TRANQI (PID2019-106888GB-I00/10.13039/501100011033), the Government of Spain (FIS2020-TRANQI; Severo Ochoa CEX2019-000910-S), Fundació Cellex, Fundació Mir-Puig, and Generalitat de Catalunya (CERCA, AGAUR). M.M., W.M., N.H.V., and C.F. acknowledge support from the QuantERA ERA-NET Co-fund (FWF Project I3773-N36) and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/P024114/1). article_number: '50' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Matej full_name: Pivoluska, Matej last_name: Pivoluska - first_name: Martin full_name: Plesch, Martin last_name: Plesch - first_name: Máté full_name: Farkas, Máté last_name: Farkas - first_name: Natalia full_name: Ruzickova, Natalia id: D2761128-D73D-11E9-A1BF-BA0DE6697425 last_name: Ruzickova - first_name: Clara full_name: Flegel, Clara last_name: Flegel - first_name: Natalia Herrera full_name: Valencia, Natalia Herrera last_name: Valencia - first_name: Will full_name: Mccutcheon, Will last_name: Mccutcheon - first_name: Mehul full_name: Malik, Mehul last_name: Malik - first_name: Edgar A. full_name: Aguilar, Edgar A. last_name: Aguilar citation: ama: Pivoluska M, Plesch M, Farkas M, et al. Semi-device-independent random number generation with flexible assumptions. npj Quantum Information. 2021;7. doi:10.1038/s41534-021-00387-1 apa: Pivoluska, M., Plesch, M., Farkas, M., Ruzickova, N., Flegel, C., Valencia, N. H., … Aguilar, E. A. (2021). Semi-device-independent random number generation with flexible assumptions. Npj Quantum Information. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-021-00387-1 chicago: Pivoluska, Matej, Martin Plesch, Máté Farkas, Natalia Ruzickova, Clara Flegel, Natalia Herrera Valencia, Will Mccutcheon, Mehul Malik, and Edgar A. Aguilar. “Semi-Device-Independent Random Number Generation with Flexible Assumptions.” Npj Quantum Information. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-021-00387-1. ieee: M. Pivoluska et al., “Semi-device-independent random number generation with flexible assumptions,” npj Quantum Information, vol. 7. Springer Nature, 2021. ista: Pivoluska M, Plesch M, Farkas M, Ruzickova N, Flegel C, Valencia NH, Mccutcheon W, Malik M, Aguilar EA. 2021. Semi-device-independent random number generation with flexible assumptions. npj Quantum Information. 7, 50. mla: Pivoluska, Matej, et al. “Semi-Device-Independent Random Number Generation with Flexible Assumptions.” Npj Quantum Information, vol. 7, 50, Springer Nature, 2021, doi:10.1038/s41534-021-00387-1. short: M. Pivoluska, M. Plesch, M. Farkas, N. Ruzickova, C. Flegel, N.H. Valencia, W. Mccutcheon, M. Malik, E.A. Aguilar, Npj Quantum Information 7 (2021). date_created: 2021-03-21T23:01:19Z date_published: 2021-03-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-07T14:17:26Z day: '15' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: FyKo doi: 10.1038/s41534-021-00387-1 external_id: isi: - '000629173100001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 26d3f2a2c8c8fa8c1002028326b45f64 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2021-03-22T11:09:34Z date_updated: 2021-03-22T11:09:34Z file_id: '9274' file_name: 2021_NPJQuantumInformation_Pivoluska.pdf file_size: 1360271 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-03-22T11:09:34Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 7' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: npj Quantum Information publication_identifier: eissn: - 2056-6387 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Semi-device-independent random number generation with flexible assumptions tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 7 year: '2021' ...