Pith Number

pith:RB5ET6RL

pith:2001:RB5ET6RLEXF7EADT5FNFV2JXRG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Performance of Photon-Pair Quantum Key Distribution Systems

A. V. Sergienko, B. E. A. Saleh, M. Atature, M. C. Teich, Z. Walton

arxiv:quant-ph/0103145 v1 · 2001-03-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RB5ET6RLEXF7EADT5FNFV2JXRG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:02.786643Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

887a49fa2b25cbf20073e95a5ae937899424cd343183d7a6c9f5cebf7ff8b5a2

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0103145 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0103145v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0103145 · pith_short_12: RB5ET6RLEXF7 · pith_short_16: RB5ET6RLEXF7EADT · pith_short_8: RB5ET6RL

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/RB5ET6RLEXF7EADT5FNFV2JXRG \
  | 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: 887a49fa2b25cbf20073e95a5ae937899424cd343183d7a6c9f5cebf7ff8b5a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "754eda72fa8ea69b3381155e829fbf2bffbdb0fc2b82b1a91823fc91a17f1317",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-03-26T23:26:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ec2a2482c875e17d613ef0d9255c783ba328c0b9e5006dfe44e681c65cc8844"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0103145",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}