Pith Number

pith:ZD3YSHZ4

pith:2012:ZD3YSHZ4SFMW6MRI7VTZFVFQLU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Novel High-Speed Polarization Source for Decoy-State BB84 Quantum Key Distribution over Free Space and Satellite Links

Allison MacDonald, Brendon L. Higgins, Evan Meyer-Scott, Hannes H\"ubel, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Nikolay Gigov, Thomas Jennewein, Zhizhong Yan

arxiv:1211.3194 v1 · 2012-11-14 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZD3YSHZ4SFMW6MRI7VTZFVFQLU}

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:29.230394Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8f7891f3c91596f3228fd6792d4b05d020d8c41d395cf635fcf79316bec459d

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3194 · arxiv_version: 1211.3194v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3194 · pith_short_12: ZD3YSHZ4SFMW · pith_short_16: ZD3YSHZ4SFMW6MRI · pith_short_8: ZD3YSHZ4

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/ZD3YSHZ4SFMW6MRI7VTZFVFQLU \
  | 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: c8f7891f3c91596f3228fd6792d4b05d020d8c41d395cf635fcf79316bec459d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0804b59c50572cb2c32183e67aba540989310568dd73ca46ee84ab0320440a62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-14T03:23:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dce2e60d2585dc48c9d9359e85ac12a5f8d33be9ff1eb176189109c7e847d3e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}