Pith Number

pith:7RCKAF36

pith:2016:7RCKAF36XVT2OIOAV3SDT35RJ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High-rate field demonstration of large-alphabet quantum key distribution

Catherine Lee, Darius Bunandar, Dirk Englund, Franco N. C. Wong, Gregory R. Steinbrecher, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, P. Ben Dixon, Scott A. Hamilton, Zheshen Zhang

arxiv:1611.01139 v1 · 2016-11-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7RCKAF36XVT2OIOAV3SDT35RJ7}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:00:17.578232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fc44a0177ebd67a721c0aee439efb14febbc9191da91bff1069f5f19a434bcc8

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.01139 · arxiv_version: 1611.01139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.01139 · pith_short_12: 7RCKAF36XVT2 · pith_short_16: 7RCKAF36XVT2OIOA · pith_short_8: 7RCKAF36

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/7RCKAF36XVT2OIOAV3SDT35RJ7 \
  | 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: fc44a0177ebd67a721c0aee439efb14febbc9191da91bff1069f5f19a434bcc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a34f25b1c098f39e7417e8e5f63214d3ab7df0f4ecb32fda0c82f8ad1f72b4a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-03T19:39:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d1c6b38ebdcf98bc5f0f69c9aebccf43249db3027ab8a917b950e83d8eaf33b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.01139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}