Pith Number

pith:W26X5ANP

pith:2017:W26X5ANPM3H3MU23BXGCWPKYO5

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Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with source state errors in photon number space

Cong Jiang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Zong-Wen Yu

arxiv:1710.08216 v1 · 2017-10-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W26X5ANPM3H3MU23BXGCWPKYO5}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:37.678763Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6bd7e81af66cfb6535b0dcc2b3d58774bbdeef74ab5b1134a5a02c45ce2db32

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.08216 · arxiv_version: 1710.08216v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.08216 · pith_short_12: W26X5ANPM3H3 · pith_short_16: W26X5ANPM3H3MU23 · pith_short_8: W26X5ANP

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/W26X5ANPM3H3MU23BXGCWPKYO5 \
  | 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: b6bd7e81af66cfb6535b0dcc2b3d58774bbdeef74ab5b1134a5a02c45ce2db32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "079083ad54e462436098205294f35bfcaf75f345ead4a032b406284bf6b355ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-23T11:47:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "076ae000cbca5f5efa7a352b6d749554425475553a4f1209f263e343edd9bead"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.08216",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}