Pith Number

pith:A3XSYWSD

pith:2017:A3XSYWSDNXBFCMKUY7BEIID2GA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coherence as a resource for source-independent quantum random-number generation

Aishwarya Hakande, Jiajun Ma, Xiao Yuan, Xiongfeng Ma

arxiv:1704.06915 v2 · 2017-04-23 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3XSYWSDNXBFCMKUY7BEIID2GA}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:45:24.477764Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06ef2c5a436dc2513154c7c244207a3014ed309fe9af2208a1902688458a5d7c

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.06915 · arxiv_version: 1704.06915v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.06915 · pith_short_12: A3XSYWSDNXBF · pith_short_16: A3XSYWSDNXBFCMKU · pith_short_8: A3XSYWSD

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/A3XSYWSDNXBFCMKUY7BEIID2GA \
  | 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: 06ef2c5a436dc2513154c7c244207a3014ed309fe9af2208a1902688458a5d7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66abaf27e9c69730db107ad7c12ccd893710f9b57254e97664df3dde3ecfb6c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-23T11:46:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "81cf8662d212aa894a53fb1fc5c935d1720ff768d28c6622fad8fae82c109516"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.06915",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}