Pith Number

pith:KS5X77CB

pith:2024:KS5X77CBM27TOSJFRALK5E6GUJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generation of True Quantum Random Numbers with On-Demand Probability Distributions via Single-Photon Quantum Walks

Chaoying Meng, Franco Nori, Han Zhang, Haodong Wu, Keyu Xia, Miao Cai, Yaping Ruan, Yong Zhang, Yufang Yang, Zhixiang Li

arxiv:2403.02614 v1 · 2024-03-05 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KS5X77CBM27TOSJFRALK5E6GUJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-05T08:16:47.814332Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54bb7ffc4166bf3749258816ae93c6a2503ffade7db87bd59f07468c1433d355

Aliases

arxiv: 2403.02614 · arxiv_version: 2403.02614v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.02614 · pith_short_12: KS5X77CBM27T · pith_short_16: KS5X77CBM27TOSJF · pith_short_8: KS5X77CB

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/KS5X77CBM27TOSJFRALK5E6GUJ \
  | 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: 54bb7ffc4166bf3749258816ae93c6a2503ffade7db87bd59f07468c1433d355

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b81839e876650a6c214b5f810674ab879f6b424aba3aa00ce4790dfe7de809e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-03-05T03:05:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25cef9475d8146f0633cc08298f7c8ccf50f3d471de1a6d016b090cddd3974ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2403.02614",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}