Pith Number

pith:4E2M4YPO

pith:2017:4E2M4YPONLQ5SIDS3CM3RJIBNC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High Speed Continuous Variable Source-Independent Quantum Random Number Generation

Bingjie Xu, Hong Guo, Jie Yang, Qi Su, Wei Huang, Yichen Zhang, Zhengyu Li, Ziyang Chen

arxiv:1709.00685 v2 · 2017-09-03 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4E2M4YPONLQ5SIDS3CM3RJIBNC}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:48:17.606049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e134ce61ee6ae1d92072d899b8a50168b4169ca505143c0f7c1c2d4477197b78

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.00685 · arxiv_version: 1709.00685v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.00685 · pith_short_12: 4E2M4YPONLQ5 · pith_short_16: 4E2M4YPONLQ5SIDS · pith_short_8: 4E2M4YPO

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4E2M4YPONLQ5SIDS3CM3RJIBNC \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e134ce61ee6ae1d92072d899b8a50168b4169ca505143c0f7c1c2d4477197b78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9448bb11c0e858c7f64e1b02e8055eaa5b2f712504f7682f962497b9932330c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-03T08:45:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a84446dd21bf5468b35de25d87c7c08dae1a9212ce7d4efd10afb6a59d75c212"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.00685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}