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This is the code for the experiments in the IEEE Access publication 'Generation of Truly Random Numbers on a Quantum Annealer'.
Harshil Bhatia 1,2 , Edith Tretschk 2, Christian Theobalt2 and Vladislav Golyanik 2
1 Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur , 2Max Planck Institute for Informatics
The code can be executed directly on D-Wave's Leap IDE or locally by installing D-Wave Ocean SDK
If running the code locally, we recommend the user to create a virtual environment (optionally using conda)
conda env create -n ocean
pip install dwave-ocean-sdk
pip install pyqubo
The next step is to configure access to the Leap's Solvers. To achieve this, the user needs to create an account to gain access (a free account provides upto 1 minute of QPU time) to the solvers and retrieve their respective API tokens. Now run,
dwave setup
For more information related to the configuration please refer to this guide
To generate 990,000 raw bits from the Advantage Architecture run the following code:
python unbiased_qrng.py --qpu --N 4950 --samples 200 --arch ADV
To generate 400,000 raw biased bits from the 2000Q Architecture run the following code:
python unbiased_qrng.py --qpu --N 2000 --samples 200 --arch 2000Q --bias 0.1
We provide large sets of generated unbiased and biased random numbers here
If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:
@article{bhatia2022qrng,
title = {Generation of Truly Random Numbers on a Quantum Annealer},
author = {Bhatia, Harshil and Tretschk, Edith and Theobalt, Christian and Golyanik, Vladislav },
journal = {IEEE Access},
year = {2022},
volume = {},
pages= {},
}
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