Pith Number

pith:MYXUCWZW

pith:2014:MYXUCWZWQM3AKO2JGRQ2DX635P

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Evaluation of the phase randomness of the light source in quantum key distribution systems with an attenuated laser

Akihisa Tomita, Atsushi Okamoto, Toshiya Kobayashi

arxiv:1407.1588 v1 · 2014-07-07 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MYXUCWZWQM3AKO2JGRQ2DX635P}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:42:41.554144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

662f415b368336053b493461a1dfdbebcc8b4d06b9e0aa559b7ea4cda58e4a45

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.1588 · arxiv_version: 1407.1588v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.1588 · pith_short_12: MYXUCWZWQM3A · pith_short_16: MYXUCWZWQM3AKO2J · pith_short_8: MYXUCWZW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MYXUCWZWQM3AKO2JGRQ2DX635P \
  | 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: 662f415b368336053b493461a1dfdbebcc8b4d06b9e0aa559b7ea4cda58e4a45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab044fbe60bb1bfeec17dc3d89f4af79bc85f8f1e4ef657f5b2e6176e2e32c45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-07T05:41:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24b893558d1f42c500a51bf664229e5018d2f899e96e0f4e389408c236ee503c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.1588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}