Benchmarking Optical Receivers for Quantum Communication and Randomness Certification

The choice of optical receiver determines which properties of the transmitted states remain visible in the observed data and therefore affects the performance of different quantum protocols. We compare continuous-variable, photon-counting and hybrid receivers within the same prepare-and-measure...

On-Chip Semi-Device-Independent Quantum Random Number Generator Exploiting Contextuality

We present a semi-device-independent quantum random number generator QRNG based on the violation of a contextuality inequality, implemented by the integration of two silicon photonic chips. Our system combines a heralded single-photon source with a reconfigurable interferometric mesh to implement...