Pith Number

pith:YMCVLZ7U

pith:2015:YMCVLZ7U7UVIGESCA2YVZKUIHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum cryptography without detector vulnerabilities using optically-seeded lasers

A. J. Shields, A. W. Sharpe, B. Fr\"ohlich, J. F. Dynes, L. C. Comandar, M. Lucamarini, R. V. Penty, S. Tam, Z. L. Yuan

arxiv:1509.08137 v2 · 2015-09-27 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YMCVLZ7U7UVIGESCA2YVZKUIHL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:18.601005Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c30555e7f4fd2a83124206b15caa883ac8132efc1b7dc517dc4e28943a0ab5a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.08137 · arxiv_version: 1509.08137v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.08137 · pith_short_12: YMCVLZ7U7UVI · pith_short_16: YMCVLZ7U7UVIGESC · pith_short_8: YMCVLZ7U

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/YMCVLZ7U7UVIGESCA2YVZKUIHL \
  | 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: c30555e7f4fd2a83124206b15caa883ac8132efc1b7dc517dc4e28943a0ab5a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "303733907954c0a2b60275d015301bb9dcea6cc301ff23ca94849ba5c287b5ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-27T20:24:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e903531e89c6965bcbe8e7d981d241f24c677cfeb9c96de5d8fd14c573259a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.08137",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}