Pith Number

pith:4XEOTFXT

pith:2018:4XEOTFXTFTIQZ2MD5Q6PZSTDLT

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Experimental demonstration of high-rate measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution over asymmetric channels

Feihu Xu, Hao Li, Hao Liang, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Hui Liu, Jian-Wei Pan, Kejin Wei, Li Li, Lixing You, Nai-Le Liu, Si-Jie Zhang, Teng-Yun Chen, Weijun Zhang, Wenyuan Wang, Xiao-Tian Fang, Zhen Wang

arxiv:1808.08584 v2 · 2018-08-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XEOTFXTFTIQZ2MD5Q6PZSTDLT}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:39.852905Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5c8e996f32cd10ce983ec3cfcca635ccee2137ea649598b53e62411c4178d9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.08584 · arxiv_version: 1808.08584v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.08584 · pith_short_12: 4XEOTFXTFTIQ · pith_short_16: 4XEOTFXTFTIQZ2MD · pith_short_8: 4XEOTFXT

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/4XEOTFXTFTIQZ2MD5Q6PZSTDLT \
  | 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: e5c8e996f32cd10ce983ec3cfcca635ccee2137ea649598b53e62411c4178d9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "734eb85957ee55d3625df0ffc70a3aa70861b84605e3499a1b9f6a98efd372d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-26T16:27:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2aed6ebf1b496b8fae5eafe326db6d9e33a48e136d6b9c35b3835458780273e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.08584",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}