Schrödinger’s Cat Effect Could Be Used to Generate Real Random Number
The real random number generation is a crucial problem in computer science.The current generation methods are either too dangerous or too expensive, such as using decay of some radioactive atoms, they are also hard to control.By the uncertainty principles in quantum mechanics, real probabilistic events can be just replaced by the collapse from a superposition to an eigenstate it consists of, such as double-slits interference of a single photon or electron, when the photon or electron hit onto the screen from a free moving state with certain momentum, is from a momentum eigenstate which is a superposition of position eigenstates to collapse onto a position eigenstate which is a superposition of position eigenstates.Schrdinger's cat paradox is not a paradox, it is an effect, there is something different happens in each half-life period before the atom decayed, to make the atom choose either decaying or not decaying in this half-life period to stay in the next half-life period, whether decay or not is purely probabilistic like an ideal dice.Same matter is able to possess different kinds of properties, because same matter can stay in different states which have different properties, such as wave-particle duality.One eigenstate of a physical quantity can be a superposition of eigenstates of another physical quantity, and the collapse from a superposition to an eigenstate it contains is purely probabilistic like an ideal dice, such probability can be used to generate real random number, and double-slits interference of single photon, with a screen that has photoelectric effect with this photon, real random number may be generated thereby for our computer and other smart things today.
Authors
- Jiayi Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2434-4329)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.53902/gsres.2025.05.000539
- Primary Topic
- Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00