These pseudo-random numbers suffice for low stakes uses like gaming, but for scientific simulations or cybersecurity, truly random numbers are important. In recent years scientists have turned to the ...

"As blocks are added, random misalignments gradually modify the stack's centre of gravity. When this exceeds a critical limit, the stack collapses." This approach revealed two main areas of ...

A quantum random-number generator has been developed that uses classical cryptography to certify that its output was produced by a quantum process. A truly random number is generated by a process ...

Quantum computers can produce randomness much more easily than previously thought, a surprising discovery that shows we still have much to learn about how the strange realm of quantum physics ...

Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and ...

A newly discovered set of mathematical equations describes how to turn any sequence of random events into a clock, scientists at King's College London reveal. The paper is published in the journal ...