Pith Number

pith:SS6OWGUS

pith:2015:SS6OWGUSB3EYQUBIUN3SVDB5QY

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Source-independent quantum random number generation

Hongyi Zhou, Xiao Yuan, Xiongfeng Ma, Zhu Cao

arxiv:1508.04880 v2 · 2015-08-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SS6OWGUSB3EYQUBIUN3SVDB5QY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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Quantum randomness beyond projective measurements

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:53.673206Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94bceb1a920ec9885028a3772a8c3d86370aa149e2bbbeee948848d3266cad26

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.04880 · arxiv_version: 1508.04880v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.04880 · pith_short_12: SS6OWGUSB3EY · pith_short_16: SS6OWGUSB3EYQUBI · pith_short_8: SS6OWGUS

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/SS6OWGUSB3EYQUBIUN3SVDB5QY \
  | 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: 94bceb1a920ec9885028a3772a8c3d86370aa149e2bbbeee948848d3266cad26

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aba5c9e67a71505b529fc1c1d1b49a9f166c8f34de47c92e067c78d77d4a904c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-20T05:32:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d921e2f165c4ad7b64521ee92c0b461e29cab07aaf58a991f8d6225d1bdc3ee5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.04880",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}