Unambiguous randomness from a quantum state

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16343v1
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:57:54 GMT
• Title: Unambiguous randomness from a quantum state
• Authors: Fionnuala Curran,
• Abstract summary: Intrinsic randomness is generated when a quantum state is measured in any basis in which it is not diagonal.<n>In adversarial scenario, we quantify this randomness by the probability that a correlated eavesdropper could correctly guess the measurement outcomes.<n>Inspired by analogous concepts in quantum state discrimination, we introduce the unambiguous randomness of a quantum state and measurement.
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• Abstract: Intrinsic randomness is generated when a quantum state is measured in any basis in which it is not diagonal. In an adversarial scenario, we quantify this randomness by the probability that a correlated eavesdropper could correctly guess the measurement outcomes. What if the eavesdropper is never wrong, but can sometimes return an inconclusive outcome? Inspired by analogous concepts in quantum state discrimination, we introduce the unambiguous randomness of a quantum state and measurement, and, relaxing the assumption of perfect accuracy, randomness with a fixed rate of inconclusive outcomes. We solve these problems for any state and projective measurement in dimension two, as well as for an isotropically noisy state measured in an unbiased basis of any dimension. In the latter case, we find that, given a fixed amount of total noise, an eavesdropper correlated only to the noisy state is always outperformed by an eavesdropper with joint correlations to both a noisy state and a noisy measurement. In fact, we identify a critical error parameter beyond which the joint eavesdropper achieves perfect guessing probability, ruling out any possibility of private randomness.

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