Pith Number

pith:4WIR3SQR

pith:2016:4WIR3SQRJRHN3S7KQ3MLCMY4SP

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Quantum random number generation enhanced by weak-coherent states interference

G. B. Xavier, G. C. Amaral, G. P. Tempor\~ao, J. P. von der Weid, T. Ferreira da Silva

arxiv:1608.05155 v1 · 2016-08-18 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4WIR3SQRJRHN3S7KQ3MLCMY4SP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:31.777116Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5911dca114c4eddcbea86d8b1331c93ed5a71f3bf96d149ef575307f2eeedb9

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05155 · arxiv_version: 1608.05155v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05155 · pith_short_12: 4WIR3SQRJRHN · pith_short_16: 4WIR3SQRJRHN3S7K · pith_short_8: 4WIR3SQR

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/4WIR3SQRJRHN3S7KQ3MLCMY4SP \
  | 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: e5911dca114c4eddcbea86d8b1331c93ed5a71f3bf96d149ef575307f2eeedb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7fdbc47250344dfe6ebbff24e8e32cc87d28567f33130cadec5d38b3a2f8478",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-18T01:51:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c52a6d3d3870d58b57c50301af05c17c2e0f01941731bf8c0e81f9fd4f486a08"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}