Pith Number

pith:Q3OJHMUO

pith:2014:Q3OJHMUOKAPY7AJPMKU6NCJLFU

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A bias-free quantum random number generation using photon arrival time selectively

Chao Xie, Dong-Xu Yang, Hong-Fei Zhang, Jian-Min Wang, Jian Wang, Tian-yu Xie

arxiv:1412.0171 v2 · 2014-11-30 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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\pithnumber{Q3OJHMUOKAPY7AJPMKU6NCJLFU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:04:00.070052Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86dc93b28e501f8f812f62a9e6892b2d12e8f5005e66a0a78c3becd9bc4da8cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.0171 · arxiv_version: 1412.0171v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.0171 · pith_short_12: Q3OJHMUOKAPY · pith_short_16: Q3OJHMUOKAPY7AJP · pith_short_8: Q3OJHMUO

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/Q3OJHMUOKAPY7AJPMKU6NCJLFU \
  | 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: 86dc93b28e501f8f812f62a9e6892b2d12e8f5005e66a0a78c3becd9bc4da8cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e9f15fd7c603fb0edc2141580b38daae85d60859ea2230a8e985a8e813e0d28",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-30T02:03:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d404b0bd273aba889706968c3d96014ce886ffa8e5e454c8728fb59ad78c54fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.0171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}