2013/03/25 by Dong-Ling Deng, Deng, Dong-Ling, L.-M. Duan +2
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques #Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Topological Materials and Phenomena #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1303.6365
4pages of the main text+5 pages of supplementary information
openalex publication_date 2013/03/25 · arxiv created 2013/03/26 · arxiv updated 2013/03/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Braiding of Majorana fermions gives accurate topological quantum operations that are intrinsically robust to noise and imperfection, providing a natural method to realize fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Unfortunately, it is known that braiding of Majorana fermions is not sufficient for implementation of universal quantum computation. Here we show that topological manipulation of Majorana fermions provides the full set of operations required to generate random numbers by way of quantum mechanics and to certify its genuine randomness through violation of a multipartite Bell inequality. The result opens a new perspective to apply Majorana fermions for robust generation of certified random numbers, which has important applications in cryptography and other related areas.