Pith Number

pith:WB55LQKS

pith:2011:WB55LQKS2IEDCMNMJLSNKY5ERN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

True random numbers from amplified quantum vacuum

F. Steinlechner, G. Anzolin, J.P. Torres, M. Curty, M. Jofre, M.W. Mitchell, V. Pruneri

arxiv:1110.0599 v2 · 2011-10-04 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WB55LQKS2IEDCMNMJLSNKY5ERN}

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:56.263573Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b07bd5c152d2083131ac4ae4d563a48b6c1f9d25febd451b2c4f808e48109e07

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.0599 · arxiv_version: 1110.0599v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.0599 · pith_short_12: WB55LQKS2IED · pith_short_16: WB55LQKS2IEDCMNM · pith_short_8: WB55LQKS

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/WB55LQKS2IEDCMNMJLSNKY5ERN \
  | 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: b07bd5c152d2083131ac4ae4d563a48b6c1f9d25febd451b2c4f808e48109e07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c70789296f13130036e34934dab5027e6a5bc528dd250318dbd4b00f0ef04e75",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-04T08:10:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55a2947a6b538f23c2602d5fb95ccfbe76a6731c012d61230be3709ff46cfbcf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.0599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}