Pith Number

pith:JTR47QV3

pith:2016:JTR47QV3JS25I2APNOEH5HFQU4

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Practical challenges in quantum key distribution

Bing Qi, Eleni Diamanti, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Zhiliang Yuan

arxiv:1606.05853 v1 · 2016-06-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JTR47QV3JS25I2APNOEH5HFQU4}

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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

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:23.188742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ce3cfc2bb4cb5d4680f6b887e9cb0a739ba2425fc36b8af2bdeec0af4318384

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.05853 · arxiv_version: 1606.05853v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.05853 · pith_short_12: JTR47QV3JS25 · pith_short_16: JTR47QV3JS25I2AP · pith_short_8: JTR47QV3

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/JTR47QV3JS25I2APNOEH5HFQU4 \
  | 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: 4ce3cfc2bb4cb5d4680f6b887e9cb0a739ba2425fc36b8af2bdeec0af4318384

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "636c7a78772a073afe38c632fef5758e3477322ed83ad9a4312e3725cc8adbc6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-19T11:03:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "528f69c4d7c91a1e4c2f598d2e0867a1cc3467358486ae5d1f398d86c66b0ec8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.05853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}