Pith Number

pith:PCCSK5NK

pith:2016:PCCSK5NKOSMGQEEN3XQLPVRZ7W

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Experimental asymmetric Plug-and-Play Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

Chun-Yan Li, Feihu Xu, Guang-Zhao Tang, Huan Chen, Lin-Mei Liang, Shi-Hai Sun

arxiv:1609.02648 v1 · 2016-09-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCCSK5NKOSMGQEEN3XQLPVRZ7W}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:40.427898Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78852575aa749868108ddde0b7d639fd81d658d0afc530fbe1ecd2ef411db200

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02648 · arxiv_version: 1609.02648v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02648 · pith_short_12: PCCSK5NKOSMG · pith_short_16: PCCSK5NKOSMGQEEN · pith_short_8: PCCSK5NK

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/PCCSK5NKOSMGQEEN3XQLPVRZ7W \
  | 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: 78852575aa749868108ddde0b7d639fd81d658d0afc530fbe1ecd2ef411db200

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "179e23a2040d5d251d90c247a9cdf5ff0d6e1f96ca22e84d74d66aef6086c185",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-09T03:47:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6be11a0c7a174945fd8b135bb4724e8e0e896bb83fcfae5fba3bd077d07feeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02648",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}