Pith Number

pith:NRQJAMXB

pith:2014:NRQJAMXBLFTE5XC54XGCGIQ4BF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maximization of Extractable Randomness in a Quantum Random-Number Generator

A. M. Lance, J. Y. Haw, N. H. Y. Ng, P. K. Lam, S. M. Assad, T. Symul, V. Sharma

arxiv:1411.4512 v2 · 2014-11-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NRQJAMXBLFTE5XC54XGCGIQ4BF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:05:24.107944Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c609032e159664edc5de5cc23221c095464a9564da7bea3915257075fd01f5f

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.4512 · arxiv_version: 1411.4512v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.4512 · pith_short_12: NRQJAMXBLFTE · pith_short_16: NRQJAMXBLFTE5XC5 · pith_short_8: NRQJAMXB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NRQJAMXBLFTE5XC54XGCGIQ4BF \
  | 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: 6c609032e159664edc5de5cc23221c095464a9564da7bea3915257075fd01f5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d283436d862ec4d9bd4eb6b4a66defd065a6feebbbd31dc5a570784af8261abb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-17T15:36:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b70533f6518e29b7ea170cb781561c58d623d6af6282564a459d82e2cd1a5b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.4512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}