Pith Number

pith:2M3KPNS6

pith:2011:2M3KPNS65NLFBL74AXELA7PIKJ

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Phase encoding schemes for measurement device independent quantum key distribution and basis-dependent flaw

Bing Qi, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Kiyoshi Tamaki

arxiv:1111.3413 v4 · 2011-11-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2M3KPNS65NLFBL74AXELA7PIKJ}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:59:33.402328Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d336a7b65eeb5650affc05c8b07de8525222de452a305e32e14ef3c4d56c4dfe

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.3413 · arxiv_version: 1111.3413v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.3413 · pith_short_12: 2M3KPNS65NLF · pith_short_16: 2M3KPNS65NLFBL74 · pith_short_8: 2M3KPNS6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2M3KPNS65NLFBL74AXELA7PIKJ \
  | 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: d336a7b65eeb5650affc05c8b07de8525222de452a305e32e14ef3c4d56c4dfe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "206fb0a91186f20937986e9e837962b6da35de5200524288d7b018396fd45d89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-15T02:40:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b77fbfce47bb49cc2e3b3e8a59ee6a537472a4c3895fa068686ba132b2f6edda"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.3413",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}