Pith Number

pith:OL43R5FW

pith:2014:OL43R5FWBHKHO2AF245XWSZJAW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution Using Homodyne Detection

Philippe Gallion, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi

arxiv:1411.6155 v1 · 2014-11-22 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OL43R5FWBHKHO2AF245XWSZJAW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:29:39.918798Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72f9b8f4b609d4776805d73b7b4b2905ab4e17e9de9f81426dd61163a873a582

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.6155 · arxiv_version: 1411.6155v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.6155 · pith_short_12: OL43R5FWBHKH · pith_short_16: OL43R5FWBHKHO2AF · pith_short_8: OL43R5FW

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/OL43R5FWBHKHO2AF245XWSZJAW \
  | 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: 72f9b8f4b609d4776805d73b7b4b2905ab4e17e9de9f81426dd61163a873a582

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a3c620197e69d2cfa67b83a97142294bec60a33645c524146e3f65523dca501",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-22T19:03:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba06bfdc948ae14f126ccee7ca87da0a4e2fcc9c5d7588d62d8a57ef165510d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.6155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}