Pith Number

pith:ZTER37OD

pith:2015:ZTER37ODLA5QTT32Z6IMDME53X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimental quantum key distribution with simulated ground-to-satellite photon losses and processing limitations

Amir K. Khandani, Brendon L. Higgins, Evan Meyer-Scott, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Nikolay Gigov, Norbert L\"utkenhaus, Thomas Jennewein, Zhizhong Yan

arxiv:1512.05789 v1 · 2015-12-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZTER37ODLA5QTT32Z6IMDME53X}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:06.248961Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccc91dfdc3583b09cf7acf90c1b09dddf91ee401e86cdb5d6d54809496398d33

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.05789 · arxiv_version: 1512.05789v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.05789 · pith_short_12: ZTER37ODLA5Q · pith_short_16: ZTER37ODLA5QTT32 · pith_short_8: ZTER37OD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZTER37ODLA5QTT32Z6IMDME53X \
  | 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: ccc91dfdc3583b09cf7acf90c1b09dddf91ee401e86cdb5d6d54809496398d33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17efc1cb0477b5a2783325c8d2b1932ab34ba3ecef38958afbce541c60dfb4b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-17T21:01:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa14f6b0353b6381eca6595ac8923185198b332c2a1f93b818d04cc5318a3511"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.05789",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}