Pith Number

pith:6O4LNIP2

pith:2014:6O4LNIP2QIIF4SV7R3WP6BD7GI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Higher-dimensional orbital angular momentum based quantum key distribution with mutually unbiased bases

Andrew Forbes, Angela Dudley, Daniel Giovannini, Francesco Petruccione, Melanie McLaren, Mhlambululi Mafu, Miles J. Padgett, Norbert L\"utkenhaus, Sandeep Goyal, Thomas Konrad

arxiv:1402.5810 v1 · 2014-02-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6O4LNIP2QIIF4SV7R3WP6BD7GI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:58:13.567424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3b8b6a1fa82105e4abf8eecff047f321120959370748c2575ca2b489e425301

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.5810 · arxiv_version: 1402.5810v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.5810 · pith_short_12: 6O4LNIP2QIIF · pith_short_16: 6O4LNIP2QIIF4SV7 · pith_short_8: 6O4LNIP2

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/6O4LNIP2QIIF4SV7R3WP6BD7GI \
  | 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: f3b8b6a1fa82105e4abf8eecff047f321120959370748c2575ca2b489e425301

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f74046b8c608a97a08e6177d09956cbbdf93368107fd7cdc04d5cac355c71a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-24T12:47:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41552d284752eb9bc239d911290eed546090cdde59ed4a202c227cc514062eb8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.5810",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}