Pith Number

pith:VXQRNGCH

pith:2012:VXQRNGCHVWEXYMX6XSCJ76TPPE

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All-Optical Quantum Random Bit Generation from Intrinsically Binary Phase of Parametric Oscillators

Alireza Marandi, Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, Nick C. Leindecker, Robert L. Byer

arxiv:1206.0815 v1 · 2012-06-05 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXQRNGCHVWEXYMX6XSCJ76TPPE}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:48:58.671669Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ade1169847ad897c32febc849ffa6f791397ef5127edffff086515a807a2c58d

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.0815 · arxiv_version: 1206.0815v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.0815 · pith_short_12: VXQRNGCHVWEX · pith_short_16: VXQRNGCHVWEXYMX6 · pith_short_8: VXQRNGCH

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/VXQRNGCHVWEXYMX6XSCJ76TPPE \
  | 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: ade1169847ad897c32febc849ffa6f791397ef5127edffff086515a807a2c58d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe772ac4bb4413f7f41d716e9deec355f4613ad6527b629231cdab20ea70f396",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-05T03:59:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18df1a10725527ae36b5d39ebdbc6bc7f41b787c0ef0a57aaa0041533dc3557f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.0815",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}