Pith Number

pith:77JHLU2C

pith:2013:77JHLU2C5WGNZQISBCZ5EXRNV5

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Security of high-dimensional quantum key distribution protocols using Franson interferometers

Daniel J. Gauthier, Kevin T. McCusker, Paul G. Kwiat, Stephen M. Barnett, Thomas Brougham

arxiv:1305.4541 v1 · 2013-05-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{77JHLU2C5WGNZQISBCZ5EXRNV5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:49:48.739915Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffd275d342ed8cdcc11208b3d25e2daf6993b82df26f609a1c378cb4d65d8431

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.4541 · arxiv_version: 1305.4541v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.4541 · pith_short_12: 77JHLU2C5WGN · pith_short_16: 77JHLU2C5WGNZQIS · pith_short_8: 77JHLU2C

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/77JHLU2C5WGNZQISBCZ5EXRNV5 \
  | 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: ffd275d342ed8cdcc11208b3d25e2daf6993b82df26f609a1c378cb4d65d8431

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80f021de99c3ddc23f6383451883c4c27fb182cf281afbad0690b703589c7690",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-20T14:46:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1956e612b6e8e6afbc14dcca66d9b3f170e586b18bcf813180634ef9a18ab2c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.4541",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}