Pith Number

pith:RDV6RAVN

pith:2021:RDV6RAVNOQ7XCCCZVTJYSAGE7W

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Unbalanced-basis-misalignment tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

De-Yong He, Feng-yu Lu, Guang-Can Guo, Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan, Rong Wang, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Xiao-Juan Huang, Ze-Hao Wang, Zheng-Fu Han, Zheng Zhou, Zhen-Qiang Yin

arxiv:2108.12088 v4 · 2021-08-27 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RDV6RAVNOQ7XCCCZVTJYSAGE7W}

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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	2026-07-05T04:45:56.676721Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88ebe882ad743f710859acd38900c4fd9f170d1db77e26613db251e41dfccda1

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.12088 · arxiv_version: 2108.12088v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.12088 · pith_short_12: RDV6RAVNOQ7X · pith_short_16: RDV6RAVNOQ7XCCCZ · pith_short_8: RDV6RAVN

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/RDV6RAVNOQ7XCCCZVTJYSAGE7W \
  | 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: 88ebe882ad743f710859acd38900c4fd9f170d1db77e26613db251e41dfccda1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32c109bd2e3775b95b277118fb72078169d46dc55cf949baccf9408bda5b3a8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-27T02:16:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d043f4f4fc8fabdb0009821751646f3496b3a3dcd479b019b0f9638d510a5e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2108.12088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}