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Brown: Researchers Use Tiny Magnetic Swirls to Generate True Random Numbers
February 08, 2022
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 8 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release:

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Skyrmions, tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in two-dimensional materials, can be used to generate true random numbers useful in cryptography and probabilistic computing.

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Whether for use in cybersecurity, gaming or scientific simulation, the world needs true random numbers, but generating them is harder than one might think. But a group . . .

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