Pith Number

pith:XK7223IR

pith:2014:XK7223IRFSLNAN34P3H77U4NQM

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Practical and fast quantum random number generation based on photon arrival time relative to external reference

Hong-Fei Zhang, Jian Wang, Jian-Wei Pan, Jun Zhang, Xiongfeng Ma, You-Qi Nie, Zhen Zhang

arxiv:1401.2594 v1 · 2014-01-12 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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\pithnumber{XK7223IRFSLNAN34P3H77U4NQM}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:00:02.558390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

babfad6d112c96d0377c7ecfffd38d830b1bd860d56dc70e339f9615937be8b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.2594 · arxiv_version: 1401.2594v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.2594 · pith_short_12: XK7223IRFSLN · pith_short_16: XK7223IRFSLNAN34 · pith_short_8: XK7223IR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XK7223IRFSLNAN34P3H77U4NQM \
  | 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: babfad6d112c96d0377c7ecfffd38d830b1bd860d56dc70e339f9615937be8b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ee1e6ac42f097464f9c4bfe36b5b59c78ea71673d64660475077332764e4d31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-12T06:21:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16c50b34c0319fa1fad99b7a19621c924abafbfb42a706a9732188e5e003a748"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.2594",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}