Pith Number

pith:DILLPQKA

pith:2006:DILLPQKACK4VM3RQZUH2AGOHZ7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum network communication -- the butterfly and beyond

Andreas Winter, Debbie Leung, Jonathan Oppenheim

arxiv:quant-ph/0608223 v5 · 2006-08-29 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DILLPQKACK4VM3RQZUH2AGOHZ7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:58:55.847265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a16b7c14012b9566e30cd0fa019c7cfd8a9ec379450222b1117ca6ed3d10410

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0608223 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0608223v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0608223 · pith_short_12: DILLPQKACK4V · pith_short_16: DILLPQKACK4VM3RQ · pith_short_8: DILLPQKA

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/DILLPQKACK4VM3RQZUH2AGOHZ7 \
  | 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: 1a16b7c14012b9566e30cd0fa019c7cfd8a9ec379450222b1117ca6ed3d10410

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6efffdaafbbb1ae5dd51910f687a74dfc9f4bb2b7e3221eba60f02c1486cce9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-29T06:43:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e8b63d550590f83a933a748ec3f35c8ef672252014ebf3afe574aa47d1c46e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0608223",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}