Pith Number

pith:IZKEGTPD

pith:2017:IZKEGTPDPHPCX75DTWT2ERCTJ3

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Testing the photon-number statistics of a quantum key distribution light source

A. J. Shields, A. W. Sharpe, J. F. Dynes, K. A. Patel, M. Lucamarini, Z. L. Yuan

arxiv:1711.00440 v1 · 2017-11-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IZKEGTPDPHPCX75DTWT2ERCTJ3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:20.741246Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4654434de379de2bffa39da7a244534ecd2c2768d6131c08ea4ff4a171106e14

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00440 · arxiv_version: 1711.00440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00440 · pith_short_12: IZKEGTPDPHPC · pith_short_16: IZKEGTPDPHPCX75D · pith_short_8: IZKEGTPD

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/IZKEGTPDPHPCX75DTWT2ERCTJ3 \
  | 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: 4654434de379de2bffa39da7a244534ecd2c2768d6131c08ea4ff4a171106e14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fc0dada97dd5df0a2eec7600b862327cd71f4d2e0e67e5963498e43e751c533",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-01T17:00:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be91c1277ac757ec5f08bd22627d11b735eb2241587b12b6b9083812d3e37e71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}