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pith:3UCNYB4S

pith:2018:3UCNYB4SEVNOIC6N7R5L4OAWJ3

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Information theoretic security of quantum key distribution overcoming the repeaterless secret key capacity bound

Hoi-Kwong Lo, Kiyoshi Tamaki, Marco Lucamarini, Wenyuan Wang

arxiv:1805.05511 v3 · 2018-05-15 · quant-ph

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Zigzag approach to higher key rate of sending-or-not-sending twin field quantum key distribution with finite key effects

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:02.165219Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd04dc0792255ae40bcdfc7abe38164ee90ed2d222a178f5076fdc71654b1845

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.05511 · arxiv_version: 1805.05511v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.05511 · pith_short_12: 3UCNYB4SEVNO · pith_short_16: 3UCNYB4SEVNOIC6N · pith_short_8: 3UCNYB4S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3UCNYB4SEVNOIC6N7R5L4OAWJ3 \
  | 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: dd04dc0792255ae40bcdfc7abe38164ee90ed2d222a178f5076fdc71654b1845

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddcd1d8188fea2fa6e2a24a6555874d0414c9eece3d6528dde142c63b9c1d032",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-15T01:10:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dccc11de5cedf2273d0b55560a59ed634c3e898bf37d4b31efbd7f438b370425"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.05511",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}