Pith Number

pith:VYRZRG4Y

pith:2006:VYRZRG4YWAXZ6WTOYGPKWSFIFN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum random number generator based on photonic emission in semiconductors

B. Medved Rogina, M. Stipcevic

arxiv:quant-ph/0609043 v3 · 2006-09-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYRZRG4YWAXZ6WTOYGPKWSFIFN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:27:50.510063Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae23989b98b02f9f5a6ec19eab48a82b6fb833269762f20f07312388c420b4a9

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0609043 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0609043v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0609043 · pith_short_12: VYRZRG4YWAXZ · pith_short_16: VYRZRG4YWAXZ6WTO · pith_short_8: VYRZRG4Y

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/VYRZRG4YWAXZ6WTOYGPKWSFIFN \
  | 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: ae23989b98b02f9f5a6ec19eab48a82b6fb833269762f20f07312388c420b4a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56be87060b40d329ae99ab78a91af61f9067cc3dbfb96c2db6e871f3d9a8149b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-09-06T11:46:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e557dbdbbd46c1c7274f1a51948c7c7400f51c8a4bd683177617a4d379e14802"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0609043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}