Pith Number

pith:Z7YRQIJN

pith:2012:Z7YRQIJNY5EKPDPYLF3ZGDRLPI

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Experimental measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

Guo-Liang Shentu, Hao Liang, Hua-Lei Yin, Jason S. Pelc, Jian Wang, Jian-Wei Pan, Ke Cui, Li Li, Liu-Jun Wang, M. M. Fejer, Nai-Le Liu, Qiang Zhang, Teng-Yun Chen, Xiongfeng Ma, Yang Liu

arxiv:1209.6178 v1 · 2012-09-27 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z7YRQIJNY5EKPDPYLF3ZGDRLPI}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T01:54:13.393476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cff118212dc748a78df85977930e2b7a1b895ad5a61badb1d4717cd563d6f3f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.6178 · arxiv_version: 1209.6178v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.6178 · pith_short_12: Z7YRQIJNY5EK · pith_short_16: Z7YRQIJNY5EKPDPY · pith_short_8: Z7YRQIJN

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/Z7YRQIJNY5EKPDPYLF3ZGDRLPI \
  | 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: cff118212dc748a78df85977930e2b7a1b895ad5a61badb1d4717cd563d6f3f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8579f579a89dbdb7ab49dd24cd72f07f03d0aa2fe9fcc4bb9e558098031e203",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-27T10:05:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bbcbac2c486d88688ded9bc6a47e5f5f56d270124858d3706feeec577a18244"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.6178",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}