Pith Number

pith:SFXK6RQG

pith:2009:SFXK6RQG3JPKAC45EOSAKTDMSH

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From quantum fusiliers to high-performance networks

A. M. Stephens, Kae Nemoto, K. A. Harrison, S. J. Devitt, W. J. Munro

arxiv:0910.4038 v1 · 2009-10-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SFXK6RQG3JPKAC45EOSAKTDMSH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:11:13.394403Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

916eaf4606da5ea00b9d23a4054c6c91fa86122607c157989768c8d2d33a02b9

Aliases

arxiv: 0910.4038 · arxiv_version: 0910.4038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.4038 · pith_short_12: SFXK6RQG3JPK · pith_short_16: SFXK6RQG3JPKAC45 · pith_short_8: SFXK6RQG

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/SFXK6RQG3JPKAC45EOSAKTDMSH \
  | 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: 916eaf4606da5ea00b9d23a4054c6c91fa86122607c157989768c8d2d33a02b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "276bb1187ad7746247435fcef1eac8dfd05306859cb381c4e14b40f7ee17cbee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-10-21T10:16:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3697ec4129f46041258fa64b16aa797991cbb1b563ec7474fcf30f7129c37eef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0910.4038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}