{"id":209850,"date":"2025-03-27T02:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-computing-milestone-56-qubit-computer-provides-truly-random-number-generation"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:24:31","slug":"quantum-computing-milestone-56-qubit-computer-provides-truly-random-number-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quantum-computing-milestone-56-qubit-computer-provides-truly-random-number-generation","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing milestone: 56-qubit computer provides truly random number generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computing-milestone-56-qubit-computer-provides-truly-random-number-generation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08737-1\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, a team of researchers from JPMorganChase, Quantinuum, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Texas at Austin describe a milestone in the field of quantum computing, with potential applications in cryptography, fairness and privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Using a 56-qubit quantum computer, they have for the first time experimentally demonstrated certified randomness, a way of generating random numbers from a quantum computer and then using a classical supercomputer to prove they are truly random and freshly generated. This could pave the way toward the use of quantum computers for a practical task unattainable through classical methods.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Aaronson, Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science and director of the Quantum Information Center at UT Austin, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.01625\" target=\"_blank\">invented the certified randomness protocol<\/a> that was demonstrated. He and his former postdoctoral researcher, Shih-Han Hung, provided theoretical and analytical support to the experimentalists on this latest project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new paper in Nature, a team of researchers from JPMorganChase, Quantinuum, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and The University of Texas at Austin describe a milestone in the field of quantum computing, with potential applications in cryptography, fairness and privacy. Using a 56-qubit quantum computer, they have for the first time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}