Pith Number

pith:GOIOMC2Y

pith:2013:GOIOMC2YGAIRKBTXPW2KX5WBE2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coherent State Quantum Key Distribution with Entanglement Witnessing

Alexander V. Sergienko, David S. Simon, Gregg Jaeger

arxiv:1305.3975 v2 · 2013-05-17 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GOIOMC2YGAIRKBTXPW2KX5WBE2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:49:49.455427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3390e60b5830111506777db4abf6c126bc23515c0977d4a4c57e8454d814b870

Aliases

arxiv: 1305.3975 · arxiv_version: 1305.3975v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1305.3975 · pith_short_12: GOIOMC2YGAIR · pith_short_16: GOIOMC2YGAIRKBTX · pith_short_8: GOIOMC2Y

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/GOIOMC2YGAIRKBTXPW2KX5WBE2 \
  | 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: 3390e60b5830111506777db4abf6c126bc23515c0977d4a4c57e8454d814b870

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e2fb4962e19ffdeaf588e27b5f99e13bd3cf82c1a73bdb554413ec9cd26a955",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-05-17T04:04:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e628cffa94fccdb13426b5c1de115fb793c20819558050deb562daf6fbe49fa9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1305.3975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}