Pith Number

pith:S67DGU5V

pith:2012:S67DGU5VYOUOQSXFXYS2ABF45N

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Modeling a measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution system

Allison Rubenok, Itzel Lucio-Martinez, Joshua A. Slater, Philip Chan, Wolfgang Tittel

arxiv:1204.0738 v4 · 2012-04-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S67DGU5VYOUOQSXFXYS2ABF45N}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T02:51:25.618827Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97be3353b5c3a8e84ae5be25a004bceb44bfa300e217e3a5d45a10225d3b9874

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.0738 · arxiv_version: 1204.0738v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.0738 · pith_short_12: S67DGU5VYOUO · pith_short_16: S67DGU5VYOUOQSXF · pith_short_8: S67DGU5V

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S67DGU5VYOUOQSXFXYS2ABF45N \
  | 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: 97be3353b5c3a8e84ae5be25a004bceb44bfa300e217e3a5d45a10225d3b9874

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4a49ebde4c848ff877eb592aa0c97ceee10d270fccc8505f2734b7b0f35caea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-03T17:15:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "851772db61ead7a83e5afe84572f7791e3d7b302e7cd869cd23b5a065e162145"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.0738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}