Pith Number

pith:BVCKNVV4

pith:2017:BVCKNVV4CAMGKUCIDMYP4Q44FB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution

Chao-Yang Lu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Feng-Zhi Li, Jian-Feng Wang, Jian-Jun Jia, Jian-Wei Pan, Jian-Yu Wang, Ji-Gang Ren, Jin-Cai Wu, Juan Yin, Lei Deng, Liang Zhang, Li-Hua Sun, Lu Ma, Nai-Le Liu, Qiang Wang, Qiang Zhang, Qi Shen, Rong Shu, Sheng-Kai Liao, Tai Hu, Tao Xi, Wei-Yue Liu, Wen-Qi Cai, Xiang-Bin Wang, Xiao-Jun Jiang, Xia-Wei Chen, Yang Li, Yi-Lin Zhou, Yong-Mei Huang, Yuan Cao, Yu-Ao Chen, Zhen-Cai Zhu, Zheng-Ping Li

arxiv:1707.00542 v1 · 2017-07-03 · quant-ph · physics.optics · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVCKNVV4CAMGKUCIDMYP4Q44FB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:16.773532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d44a6d6bc10186550481b30fe439c2856bd9ee24806d00353ec5f8d84b04cda

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.00542 · arxiv_version: 1707.00542v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.00542 · pith_short_12: BVCKNVV4CAMG · pith_short_16: BVCKNVV4CAMGKUCI · pith_short_8: BVCKNVV4

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/BVCKNVV4CAMGKUCIDMYP4Q44FB \
  | 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: 0d44a6d6bc10186550481b30fe439c2856bd9ee24806d00353ec5f8d84b04cda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "411270c473b92863cbbde83aed0c0b8d4ba37d5cd46e12b4e8cd16f162b31116",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-03T13:34:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79de0af3b09c08dd50188aa06bf2aa95a7c80c3ca578196ae5a0a82e11fcae58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.00542",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}