Experimental Quantum Bernoulli Factories via Bell-Basis Measurements

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Authors: Tanay Roy
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Abstract

Randomness processing in the Bernoulli factory framework provides a concrete setting in which quantum resources can outperform classical ones. We experimentally demonstrate quantum randomness processing based on Bell-basis measurements of two identical input quoins prepared on IBM superconducting hardware. Using only the measurement outcomes (and no external classical randomness source), we realize the classically inconstructible Bernoulli doubling primitive $f(p)=2p$ and, as intermediate outputs from the same Bell-measurement statistics, an exact fair coin $f(p)=1/2$ and the classically inconstructible function $f(p)=4p(1-p)$. We benchmark the measured output biases against ideal predictions and discuss the impact of device noise. Our results establish a simple resource-efficient experimental primitive for quantum-to-classical randomness processing and support the viability of quantum Bernoulli factories for quantum-enhanced stochastic simulation and sampling tasks.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Quantum Information and Cryptography Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Quantum Mechanics and Applications

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
5 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint