Pith Number

pith:ZX2QHMC2

pith:2017:ZX2QHMC263SLP5JIVFYGUUJDVX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proof-of-principle experimental realization of a qubit-like qudit-based quantum key distribution scheme

Chao Wang, Guang-Can Guo, H.F. Chau, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Zheng-Fu Han, Zhen-Qiang Yin

arxiv:1707.00387 v1 · 2017-07-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZX2QHMC263SLP5JIVFYGUUJDVX}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:21:46.256373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdf503b05af6e4b7f528a9706a5123adc145d608e4d9d783d0815ef6d72c326f

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.00387 · arxiv_version: 1707.00387v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.00387 · pith_short_12: ZX2QHMC263SL · pith_short_16: ZX2QHMC263SLP5JI · pith_short_8: ZX2QHMC2

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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/ZX2QHMC263SLP5JIVFYGUUJDVX \
  | 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: cdf503b05af6e4b7f528a9706a5123adc145d608e4d9d783d0815ef6d72c326f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee81201058c404ad8171f0bd82a50e74fea07e0e13767826764e2a183a4a123e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-03T03:10:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4703bd2dfc357a7bacbd77d59ae04db93e0eb9287697a0c7a3bc604c5c4a31dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.00387",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}