Pith Number

pith:ZR4NYHTL

pith:2006:ZR4NYHTLWYJG2ZBWLAAXSXCMZ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Practical decoy state method in quantum key distribution with heralded single photon source

Guang-Can Guo, Qin Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang

arxiv:quant-ph/0610134 v1 · 2006-10-17 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZR4NYHTLWYJG2ZBWLAAXSXCMZ3}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:24:19.312243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc78dc1e6bb6126d64365801795c4ccedbdd67428020a95689d7668796e21b72

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0610134 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0610134v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0610134 · pith_short_12: ZR4NYHTLWYJG · pith_short_16: ZR4NYHTLWYJG2ZBW · pith_short_8: ZR4NYHTL

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/ZR4NYHTLWYJG2ZBWLAAXSXCMZ3 \
  | 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: cc78dc1e6bb6126d64365801795c4ccedbdd67428020a95689d7668796e21b72

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3e7780c37197e16de4af350203b911c5f30498eb924ab493a8bfaf26e322742",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-10-17T05:21:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0ca8ddfc240988dea887bdd61d18c52c1b53ce790ca4a57269c6f6da622bc4f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0610134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}