Pith Number

pith:LNLTRSIN

pith:2011:LNLTRSINAJXCJHHJ4CJYZWR6IB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Device calibration impacts security of quantum key distribution

Carlos Wiechers, Christoffer Wittmann, Christoph Marquardt, Dominique Elser, Gerd Leuchs, Lars Lydersen, Nitin Jain, Vadim Makarov

arxiv:1103.2327 v4 · 2011-03-11 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNLTRSINAJXCJHHJ4CJYZWR6IB}

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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	2026-05-18T04:12:56.382629Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b5738c90d026e249ce9e0938cda3e40735fa1a560dc8cd7b94b9b7e8529fcef

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.2327 · arxiv_version: 1103.2327v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.2327 · pith_short_12: LNLTRSINAJXC · pith_short_16: LNLTRSINAJXCJHHJ · pith_short_8: LNLTRSIN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LNLTRSINAJXCJHHJ4CJYZWR6IB \
  | 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: 5b5738c90d026e249ce9e0938cda3e40735fa1a560dc8cd7b94b9b7e8529fcef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f8d96b8f3ec5375af43572107747a9b23ea51ddfbb6cbf36a84854acfba23c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-11T18:00:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51ea88b29366071f461d2a05cbc1265c848bdf12c6be7b321f5bfae1d0dbc7a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.2327",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}