Pith Number

pith:BMPATSDB

pith:2017:BMPATSDB5NWVS5LTQDWG47DNUZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Modulator-free coherent-one-way quantum key distribution

Andrew J. Shields, George L. Roberts, James F. Dynes, Marco Lucamarini, Seb J. Savory, Zhiliang Yuan

arxiv:1707.04425 v2 · 2017-07-14 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BMPATSDB5NWVS5LTQDWG47DNUZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:40:02.748053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b1e09c861eb6d59757380ec6e7c6da647846af88b532a2d68ae07c9cfe2c8e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.04425 · arxiv_version: 1707.04425v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.04425 · pith_short_12: BMPATSDB5NWV · pith_short_16: BMPATSDB5NWVS5LT · pith_short_8: BMPATSDB

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/BMPATSDB5NWVS5LTQDWG47DNUZ \
  | 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: 0b1e09c861eb6d59757380ec6e7c6da647846af88b532a2d68ae07c9cfe2c8e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d31b08e9a610b324cb798cce745afacb13d3aa5988fe9d3e0a00dec963025ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-14T09:12:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72e9d5d7797f56876101411903c65e3aa832edb9f213c5e24914a88a60ccfb0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.04425",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}