Pith Number

pith:GSWJALUP

pith:2016:GSWJALUPT6MB3PRXLHLVOIWKNI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random number generation with cosmic photons

Bing Bai, Cheng Wu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Hongyan Zhou, Jianfeng Wang, Jian-Wei Pan, Ji-Gang Ren, Jingyun Fan, Jun Zhang, Meng Yang, Qiang Zhang, Shaohua Zhang, Xiaoming Zhang, Xiheng Shi, Xiongfeng Ma, Yang Liu, Yuan Cao

arxiv:1611.07126 v2 · 2016-11-22 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GSWJALUPT6MB3PRXLHLVOIWKNI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:38.905338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34ac902e8f9f981dbe3759d75722ca6a35c8a359bd958220417010fd73e7e58a

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.07126 · arxiv_version: 1611.07126v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.07126 · pith_short_12: GSWJALUPT6MB · pith_short_16: GSWJALUPT6MB3PRX · pith_short_8: GSWJALUP

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/GSWJALUPT6MB3PRXLHLVOIWKNI \
  | 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: 34ac902e8f9f981dbe3759d75722ca6a35c8a359bd958220417010fd73e7e58a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b38433797ea3b0f90d089bb3a2a26486b132d4a27838f2cdc12664b4dccf0c08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-22T02:11:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47cf31ea41be904de5e0938cfe2f0f9c8e74b4b410cdc5073ac945ccd56a3a10"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.07126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}