Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Practical security analysis of a continuous-variable quantum random
  number generator with a noisy local oscillator   A quantum random-number generator (QRNG) can theoretically generate
unpredictable random numbers with perfect devices and is an ideal and secure
source of random numbers for cryptography. However, the practical
implementations always contain imperfections, which will greatly influence the
randomness of the final output and even open loopholes to eavesdroppers.
Recently, Thewes et al. experimentally demonstrated a continuous-variable
eavesdropping attack, based on heterodyne detection, on a trusted
continuous-variable QRNG in Phys. Rev. A 100, 052318 (2019), yet like in many
other practical continuous-variable QRNG studies, they always supposed the
local oscillator was stable and ignored its fluctuation which might lead to
security threats such as wavelength attack. In this work, based on the theory
of the conditional min-entropy, imperfections of the practical security of
continuous-variable QRNGs are systematically analyzed, especially the local
oscillator fluctuation under imbalanced homodyne detection. Experiments of a
practical QRNG based on vacuum fluctuation are demonstrated to show the
influence of local oscillator fluctuation on the total measurement noise
variances and the practical conditional min-entropy with beam splitters of
different transmittances. Moreover, a local oscillator monitoring method is
proposed for the practical continuous-variable QRNG, which can be used to
calibrate the practical conditional min-entropy.

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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg