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Random Number Generation

Random Number Generation is a computational and physical process that produces sequences of numbers or symbols whose statistical properties realize or approximate those of ideal randomness, typically by employing deterministic pseudorandom algorithms or nondeterministic entropy sources for use in simulation, cryptography, and statistical sampling.

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Quantum computation and quantum information

Jim Law · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2001 · 19.2K citations

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Mersenne twister

Makoto Matsumoto, Takuji Nishimura · ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation · 1998 · 5.7K citations

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Random Number Generation and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods.

Bruce Jay Collings, Harald Niederreiter · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1993 · 3K citations

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Quantum cryptography without Bell’s theorem

Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, N. David Mermin · Physical Review Letters · 1992 · 2.4K citations

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Quantum computation and quantum information

Thierry Paul · Mathematical Structures in Computer Science · 2007 · 1.9K citations

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    Pierre L’Ecuyer

    Université de Montréal, Canada

    51 publications · 4.8K citations

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    Harald Niederreiter

    Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

    31 publications · 4K citations

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    Yuncai Wang

    Taiyuan University of Technology, China

    25 publications · 1.1K citations

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    George Marsaglia

    Florida State University, United States

    21 publications · 3.3K citations

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    Pu Li

    Taiyuan University of Technology, China

    20 publications · 850 citations

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  1. Université de Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    32 h-index

    74 publications

    7.9K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    170 publications

    8.8K citations

  3. Tsinghua University

    Beijing, China

    24 h-index

    128 publications

    8K citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    24 h-index

    69 publications

    6.3K citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    23 h-index

    44 publications

    3.8K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    22 h-index

    143 publications

    6.9K citations

  7. University of Science and Technology of China

    Hefei, China

    20 h-index

    162 publications

    11.8K citations

  8. Austrian Academy of Sciences

    Vienna, Austria

    20 h-index

    35 publications

    4K citations

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  1. Optics Express

    44 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. Mathematics of Computation

    MCOM · 56 publications · 2.5K citations

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

    36 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. IEEE Access

    33 publications · 1.2K citations

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