High-Order Single-Photon W-states for Random Number Generation
Markus Gräfe, René Heilmann, Armando Pérez-Leija, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Alexander Szameit · 2014
We experimentally realize the generation of high-order photon encoded W-states involving up to 16 optical modes. Furthermore, we exploit the inherent probabilistic properties of these multipartite entangled W-states for generating genuine random numbers.