Pith Number

pith:KTGSQMLO

pith:2012:KTGSQMLOTEL2SATOZIJT6LJWDL

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Uncertainty principle certifies genuine source of intrinsic randomness

Manik Banik, Pinaki Patra, Trina Chakraborty

arxiv:1211.5679 v2 · 2012-11-24 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KTGSQMLOTEL2SATOZIJT6LJWDL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T02:55:20.676290Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

54cd28316e9917a9026eca133f2d361ac173c5c737d24e4a248b42d82de13c23

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.5679 · arxiv_version: 1211.5679v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.5679 · pith_short_12: KTGSQMLOTEL2 · pith_short_16: KTGSQMLOTEL2SATO · pith_short_8: KTGSQMLO

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/KTGSQMLOTEL2SATOZIJT6LJWDL \
  | 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: 54cd28316e9917a9026eca133f2d361ac173c5c737d24e4a248b42d82de13c23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88e2ef2c89e1a01c5d828a1de7eed0817688badd35912da2f24362ef577ad37e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-24T15:44:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2abc09a58ca621c6409d3e1a1d5cd7a0e73a92e4062d5de8156fc75b70bcb0ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.5679",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}