Pith Number

pith:KCKHWISN

pith:2017:KCKHWISN4PV5NSJXGWWN4ZWKK7

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Information-theoretic security proof of differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution protocol based on complementarity

Akihiro Mizutani, Go Kato, Kiyoshi Tamaki, Toshihiko Sasaki, Yuki Takeuchi

arxiv:1705.00171 v1 · 2017-04-29 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KCKHWISN4PV5NSJXGWWN4ZWKK7}

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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	2026-07-05T01:25:00.761644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50947b224de3ebd6c93735acde66ca57e96883b108149dd2aeef890cbb1da921

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.00171 · arxiv_version: 1705.00171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.00171 · pith_short_12: KCKHWISN4PV5 · pith_short_16: KCKHWISN4PV5NSJX · pith_short_8: KCKHWISN

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/KCKHWISN4PV5NSJXGWWN4ZWKK7 \
  | 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: 50947b224de3ebd6c93735acde66ca57e96883b108149dd2aeef890cbb1da921

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13160260054a23f5041e64fb876ef4ff910a2c21d3d444466b204d93414d5581",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-29T11:38:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "877efea5bb30ce3ca4cefc27f27fc01af0ba33f614bbf3e300b37e70508886cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.00171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}