Pith Number

pith:MKVZYBC7

pith:2011:MKVZYBC77G3SQM5NT7SUTH3U5Q

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How to implement decoy-state quantum key distribution for a satellite uplink with 50 dB channel loss

Allison MacDonald, Evan Meyer-Scott, Hannes H\"ubel, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Thomas Jennewein, Zhizhong Yan

arxiv:1111.0976 v2 · 2011-11-03 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:05:15.800771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62ab9c045ff9b72833ad9fe5499f74ec07e2b10db8bde59186f78711390120ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.0976 · arxiv_version: 1111.0976v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.0976 · pith_short_12: MKVZYBC77G3S · pith_short_16: MKVZYBC77G3SQM5N · pith_short_8: MKVZYBC7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MKVZYBC77G3SQM5NT7SUTH3U5Q \
  | 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: 62ab9c045ff9b72833ad9fe5499f74ec07e2b10db8bde59186f78711390120ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb13be24ee173772d9994e3a37e6124df23ae7919269b9c1d96e00ade09fe4a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-03T20:11:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adb3776e3058ef6aaedf470e944f094ee1cf6eb5685ecda42d2e6d107bf3a4dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.0976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}