Pith Number

pith:UZDOOCSC

pith:2017:UZDOOCSCNIPGQULGUNNWEWBPM6

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Practical quantum random number generator based on sampling vacuum fluctuations

Caleb John, Qiang Zhou, Raju Valivarthi, Wolfgang Tittel

arxiv:1703.00559 v2 · 2017-03-02 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UZDOOCSCNIPGQULGUNNWEWBPM6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:08.420111Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a646e70a426a1e685166a35b62582f67b91315b4a0899e935acf6180044436cb

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00559 · arxiv_version: 1703.00559v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00559 · pith_short_12: UZDOOCSCNIPG · pith_short_16: UZDOOCSCNIPGQULG · pith_short_8: UZDOOCSC

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/UZDOOCSCNIPGQULGUNNWEWBPM6 \
  | 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: a646e70a426a1e685166a35b62582f67b91315b4a0899e935acf6180044436cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4120e5ea9deceefec303c6c072824226de0ce691382538098599c88dad71688c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-02T00:11:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "234232adbfa7456e374714c4e3d02b57aae4da3e3b72c823212f6a1ec49a0c04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}