Pith Number

pith:4ZSLDHNB

pith:2015:4ZSLDHNB2XSLWPAVHRJBLTMPQI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photon-efficient quantum cryptography with pulse-position modulation

Alessandro Restelli, Feihu Xu, Franco N. C. Wong, Gregory W. Wornell, Hongchao Zhou, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Joshua C. Bienfang, Ligong Wang, Tian Zhong, Zheshen Zhang

arxiv:1510.06126 v1 · 2015-10-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZSLDHNB2XSLWPAVHRJBLTMPQI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:29:37.696469Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e664b19da1d5e4bb3c153c5215cd8f820f1b92873381eb9fefd0bf0227f93eed

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.06126 · arxiv_version: 1510.06126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.06126 · pith_short_12: 4ZSLDHNB2XSL · pith_short_16: 4ZSLDHNB2XSLWPAV · pith_short_8: 4ZSLDHNB

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/4ZSLDHNB2XSLWPAVHRJBLTMPQI \
  | 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: e664b19da1d5e4bb3c153c5215cd8f820f1b92873381eb9fefd0bf0227f93eed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c3828a18bdb06ccba242db0852b48115c5e9e29daffcde34b3155be8eed2ffc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-21T03:44:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca41d5f5a05cdf8c89f72f276a95f598dc2a68bcd16479aea394005d9619ca93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.06126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}