Pith Number

pith:UY77SYL3

pith:2016:UY77SYL3F6VC4NX6V53DJ6NKZY

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Security of quantum key distribution with non-I.I.D. light sources

Akihiro Mizutani, Kiyoshi Tamaki, Nobuyuki Imoto, Rikizo Ikuta, Takashi Yamamoto, Yuichi Nagamatsu

arxiv:1602.02914 v1 · 2016-02-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UY77SYL3F6VC4NX6V53DJ6NKZY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:14.231536Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a63ff9617b2faa2e36feaf7634f9aace35059946af9ddab915d173df6469d4e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02914 · arxiv_version: 1602.02914v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02914 · pith_short_12: UY77SYL3F6VC · pith_short_16: UY77SYL3F6VC4NX6 · pith_short_8: UY77SYL3

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/UY77SYL3F6VC4NX6V53DJ6NKZY \
  | 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: a63ff9617b2faa2e36feaf7634f9aace35059946af9ddab915d173df6469d4e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56955d97127b532b702d8b41191686713d939d49ef81d7e97f6d6d67eea01f11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-09T09:40:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5bd012b3ecb997135b18416de5dec97d06a7f68386cf7c69ad0ea60407ed8ef5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.02914",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}