Pith Number

pith:RR6KSMDF

pith:2018:RR6KSMDFYVEO5R6V5BA4NWNHNN

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Long term test of a fast and compact Quantum Random Number Generator

Alan Plews, Andrew J. Shields, Andrew W. Sharpe, Davide G. Marangon, James F. Dynes, Marco Lucamarini, Zhiliang Yuan

arxiv:1807.03989 v1 · 2018-07-11 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RR6KSMDFYVEO5R6V5BA4NWNHNN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:58.385865Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c7ca93065c548eec7d5e841c6d9a76b6ed54e06ee9c406fc985c1191f68e3ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.03989 · arxiv_version: 1807.03989v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.03989 · pith_short_12: RR6KSMDFYVEO · pith_short_16: RR6KSMDFYVEO5R6V · pith_short_8: RR6KSMDF

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/RR6KSMDFYVEO5R6V5BA4NWNHNN \
  | 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: 8c7ca93065c548eec7d5e841c6d9a76b6ed54e06ee9c406fc985c1191f68e3ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32567021266a1b23832ff5f26124a8066df8f0a28774bfb28edf2026578d121c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-11T08:19:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6460316a40ce32c57ba97350a5cd98565f2c1718aff4af879de928661d2f962"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.03989",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}