Pith Number

pith:JIZ3EPIL

pith:2018:JIZ3EPIL2UAGGDQHUUMK2YIUPF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Certifying Quantum Randomness by Probability Estimation

Emanuel Knill, Peter Bierhorst, Yanbao Zhang

arxiv:1811.11928 v1 · 2018-11-29 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JIZ3EPIL2UAGGDQHUUMK2YIUPF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-17T23:59:35.113132Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a33b23d0bd500630e07a518ad6114794c308895b6d5092ba737fd931201df57

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.11928 · arxiv_version: 1811.11928v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.11928 · pith_short_12: JIZ3EPIL2UAG · pith_short_16: JIZ3EPIL2UAGGDQH · pith_short_8: JIZ3EPIL

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/JIZ3EPIL2UAGGDQHUUMK2YIUPF \
  | 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: 4a33b23d0bd500630e07a518ad6114794c308895b6d5092ba737fd931201df57

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88ce82a4f41158b3c860114f9ea880735387f370567753d11b518055e1260b93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-29T02:16:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96505f3989f029883a79df043bac2fc1d4386f5a8371efe409992a11e8c28efc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.11928",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}