Pith Number

pith:7Q2VCA6O

pith:2015:7Q2VCA6OCEVHBTKCIN7F7EIJGA

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Loss-tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum random number generation

Hongyi Zhou, Xiongfeng Ma, Zhu Cao

arxiv:1510.08960 v1 · 2015-10-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7Q2VCA6OCEVHBTKCIN7F7EIJGA}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:57.406668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fc355103ce112a70cd42437e5f9109301457da9ed02bee031e663814e7edf726

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.08960 · arxiv_version: 1510.08960v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.08960 · pith_short_12: 7Q2VCA6OCEVH · pith_short_16: 7Q2VCA6OCEVHBTKC · pith_short_8: 7Q2VCA6O

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/7Q2VCA6OCEVHBTKCIN7F7EIJGA \
  | 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: fc355103ce112a70cd42437e5f9109301457da9ed02bee031e663814e7edf726

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a550765a053ff886d3c54ffcb16f1dcdc2cabe53f69824a4a48c29ce12e8495",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-30T03:18:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abca9c49f669f39191055b8a159d961a8396310eac3734deb59ae96ecd4f5518"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.08960",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}