Pith Number

pith:LITCSYXB

pith:2022:LITCSYXBOOK5DI7L7QESSAD2ZW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Certifiable Randomness from a Single Quantum Device

Thomas Vidick, Umesh Vazirani, Urmila Mahadev

arxiv:2204.11353 v1 · 2022-04-24 · quant-ph · cs.CC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LITCSYXBOOK5DI7L7QESSAD2ZW}

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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.

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Genuine certifiable randomness from a black-box

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:17:26.916146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a262962e17395d1a3ebfc0929007acd8f9f958d3091e1ebf760a21688476e5c

Aliases

arxiv: 2204.11353 · arxiv_version: 2204.11353v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.11353 · pith_short_12: LITCSYXBOOK5 · pith_short_16: LITCSYXBOOK5DI7L · pith_short_8: LITCSYXB

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/LITCSYXBOOK5DI7L7QESSAD2ZW \
  | 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: 5a262962e17395d1a3ebfc0929007acd8f9f958d3091e1ebf760a21688476e5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6fdfa92f5e28e832dafc4f4fde8ee729d5c46735b4aa02457c3de4c964a46b77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-04-24T20:32:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e12eeea75f571cd9a4097f246e690ebd53970b819cbce0bf1edd47e54223dcd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2204.11353",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}