Pith Number

pith:BCD236QY

pith:2018:BCD236QYGVDUVI66QRC5VA56OW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gaussian one-way thermal quantum cryptography with finite-size effects

Carlo Ottaviani, Panagiotis Papanastasiou, Stefano Pirandola

arxiv:1803.09158 v2 · 2018-03-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCD236QYGVDUVI66QRC5VA56OW}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:45.747447Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0887adfa1835474aa3de8445da83be75b36cdc69641d53cfea9ab4239588307b

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09158 · arxiv_version: 1803.09158v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09158 · pith_short_12: BCD236QYGVDU · pith_short_16: BCD236QYGVDUVI66 · pith_short_8: BCD236QY

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/BCD236QYGVDUVI66QRC5VA56OW \
  | 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: 0887adfa1835474aa3de8445da83be75b36cdc69641d53cfea9ab4239588307b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eab232bbe636e259c078342dee6cfd546d70e7f752f2a3ac637b5d9190c88b3c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-24T20:12:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5cbd8018687da1c0d8cbbcd3084fe1bbc4a87e3463f9683cf73a29b4539b365"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.09158",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}