Pith Number

pith:6XZ4JCGA

pith:2017:6XZ4JCGAYWDH3QSWBTSHSSNWAF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hybrid quantum key distribution using coherent states and photon-number-resolving detectors

Marco Cattaneo, Matteo G. A. Paris, Stefano Olivares

arxiv:1707.02852 v3 · 2017-07-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6XZ4JCGAYWDH3QSWBTSHSSNWAF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:46.444041Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5f3c488c0c5867dc2560ce47949b601515c3ade45e235a69ef4c1af4599f38b

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.02852 · arxiv_version: 1707.02852v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.02852 · pith_short_12: 6XZ4JCGAYWDH · pith_short_16: 6XZ4JCGAYWDH3QSW · pith_short_8: 6XZ4JCGA

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/6XZ4JCGAYWDH3QSWBTSHSSNWAF \
  | 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: f5f3c488c0c5867dc2560ce47949b601515c3ade45e235a69ef4c1af4599f38b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1eb29892a4b1b4e14cad323603bb9c72a5c2b8fbc4b3bb1bee3a001308b4615c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-10T13:40:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44bf6354c2356a6dd40860c6341a2b0a96eb1fee372fe0ea06b076fb76929079"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.02852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}