Pith Number

pith:N6LL7MMZ

pith:2026:N6LL7MMZJEBVE6PP4OIE3OOESL

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Simplified quantum key distribution implementation secure in the presence of state preparation flaws

Ainhoa Agulleiro, Ana Bl\'azquez, Davide Rusca, Fadri Gr\"unenfelder, Hugo Zbinden, Rapha\"el Houlmann

arxiv:2607.06038 v1 · 2026-07-07 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N6LL7MMZJEBVE6PP4OIE3OOESL}

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-07-08T01:18:54.674295Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f96bfb19949035279efe3904db9c492cadda068ada6259d42b0abf7008d47fd

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.06038 · arxiv_version: 2607.06038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.06038 · pith_short_12: N6LL7MMZJEBV · pith_short_16: N6LL7MMZJEBVE6PP · pith_short_8: N6LL7MMZ

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/N6LL7MMZJEBVE6PP4OIE3OOESL \
  | 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: 6f96bfb19949035279efe3904db9c492cadda068ada6259d42b0abf7008d47fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd2987895f6d0617ba8378df73d322012fa04829f3e6fb9fd2aeedaf099ef61a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-07T09:13:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "affbbd75626cced1f16339c46ac1a87295ddf199aaca172a0e46dfd65e18cc0b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.06038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}