Pith Number

pith:6TYPQ3CF

pith:2018:6TYPQ3CFA2WWR2MN6Y5OXVEQYA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Patterning-effect-free intensity modulator for secure decoy-state quantum key distribution

A. J. Shields, G. L. Roberts, J. F. Dynes, M. Lucamarini, M. Minder, M. Pittaluga, Z. L. Yuan

arxiv:1807.07414 v1 · 2018-07-19 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{6TYPQ3CFA2WWR2MN6Y5OXVEQYA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:51.954645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4f0f86c4506ad68e98df63aebd490c01c9b068b8de7a1201f1475b8eb9ed601

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.07414 · arxiv_version: 1807.07414v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.07414 · pith_short_12: 6TYPQ3CFA2WW · pith_short_16: 6TYPQ3CFA2WWR2MN · pith_short_8: 6TYPQ3CF

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/6TYPQ3CFA2WWR2MN6Y5OXVEQYA \
  | 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: f4f0f86c4506ad68e98df63aebd490c01c9b068b8de7a1201f1475b8eb9ed601

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62e1eabc681745d4b4f25156dff91c24497ae84c5785bd3846da32217554353e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-19T13:38:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "659830343dc33d6a80dd2eec631005ffb6c610637e9cab7621fb78a5a5383b23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.07414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}