Pith Number

pith:VDZMWGFW

pith:2016:VDZMWGFWB5NFA5S4USUWFQGQFW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A quantum entropy source on an InP photonic integrated circuit for random number generation

Carlos Abellan, David Domenech, Jose Capmany, Morgan W. Mitchell, Pascual Mu\~noz, Stefano Longhi, Valerio Pruneri, Waldimar Amaya

arxiv:1609.03255 v1 · 2016-09-12 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDZMWGFWB5NFA5S4USUWFQGQFW}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:47.377387Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8f2cb18b60f5a50765ca4a962c0d02d86acc239b9e99bfc87b1e4e58c5fdb83

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.03255 · arxiv_version: 1609.03255v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.03255 · pith_short_12: VDZMWGFWB5NF · pith_short_16: VDZMWGFWB5NFA5S4 · pith_short_8: VDZMWGFW

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/VDZMWGFWB5NFA5S4USUWFQGQFW \
  | 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: a8f2cb18b60f5a50765ca4a962c0d02d86acc239b9e99bfc87b1e4e58c5fdb83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af282c4b9ab3e5210856fc836c23eb2fb12f669c2580d9f0749fd376528d7257",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-12T02:46:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30a3b4007d65552d18a35d6b448754f81021e2c72d8959a66023d982c912660c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.03255",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}