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pith:P72Y6YQ2

pith:2011:P72Y6YQ2QDMLECTOLWHGV5J53P
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Real time demonstration of high bitrate quantum random number generation with coherent laser light

P. K. Lam, S. M. Assad, T. Symul

arxiv:1107.4438 v1 · 2011-07-22 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{P72Y6YQ2QDMLECTOLWHGV5J53P}

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First computed 2026-05-18T04:17:04.037376Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ff58f621a80d8b20a6e5d8e6af53ddbe75b15fd3f410d8d3c36d361e74d6923

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.4438 · arxiv_version: 1107.4438v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.4438 · pith_short_12: P72Y6YQ2QDML · pith_short_16: P72Y6YQ2QDMLECTO · pith_short_8: P72Y6YQ2
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P72Y6YQ2QDMLECTOLWHGV5J53P \
  | 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: 7ff58f621a80d8b20a6e5d8e6af53ddbe75b15fd3f410d8d3c36d361e74d6923
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0edb73ccc155a7e779203676f4c647da45af094f97a12c0cc785fa4292fdacd1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-22T07:35:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55e33ae2264968add6fdd1b6a946f0828ba5e0e1550e64a1c4b7883d09031d62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.4438",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}