Pith Number

pith:IBLZ5OSK

pith:2016:IBLZ5OSKGJSY7UVZBFWQFBJIHF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum key distribution by phase flipping of coherent states of light

G. A. Barbosa, J. van de Graaf, N. Paunkovi\'c, P. Mateus

arxiv:1609.07064 v2 · 2016-09-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IBLZ5OSKGJSY7UVZBFWQFBJIHF}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:45:06.381711Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40579eba4a32658fd2b9096d028528394d374147026e84514ed89824c65f43c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.07064 · arxiv_version: 1609.07064v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.07064 · pith_short_12: IBLZ5OSKGJSY · pith_short_16: IBLZ5OSKGJSY7UVZ · pith_short_8: IBLZ5OSK

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/IBLZ5OSKGJSY7UVZBFWQFBJIHF \
  | 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: 40579eba4a32658fd2b9096d028528394d374147026e84514ed89824c65f43c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d74ba1963367250aaf9f3de9235af4a1a5d5d41a27e90a0b99f134c1cdc2e58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-22T16:55:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec4490b4f68a5efc388a139b2e858e82f541ed7dcaec424a8eaf72a984036d61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.07064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}