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pith:BQWQUKVT

pith:2017:BQWQUKVTQR5UT7H7HVDFS2CPXY

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Reliable numerical key rates for quantum key distribution

Adam Winick, Norbert L\"utkenhaus, Patrick J. Coles

arxiv:1710.05511 v2 · 2017-10-16 · quant-ph

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Finite-size quantum key distribution rates from R\'enyi entropies using conic optimization

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:42.041103Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c2d0a2ab3847b49fcff3d4659684fbe0cfacaeb591e71e37884695ff0b5edd7

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05511 · arxiv_version: 1710.05511v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05511 · pith_short_12: BQWQUKVTQR5U · pith_short_16: BQWQUKVTQR5UT7H7 · pith_short_8: BQWQUKVT

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BQWQUKVTQR5UT7H7HVDFS2CPXY \
  | 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: 0c2d0a2ab3847b49fcff3d4659684fbe0cfacaeb591e71e37884695ff0b5edd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36fd39fe1ef6ff1a89c77e981bfab4e73f4a02b4b55bceda498f61ca20de535f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T05:26:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68b4cd5ac1dec6fa76dd02b9c68fbe9dc9b8c7d7edbbce8a7c9804243b2fd694"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05511",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}