Pith Number

pith:T6G7V3KL

pith:2010:T6G7V3KL5DNIYXKTXTW2W5BLXF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reference frame independent quantum key distribution

Anthony Laing, Jeremy L. O'Brien, John G. Rarity, Valerio Scarani

arxiv:1003.1050 v1 · 2010-03-04 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T6G7V3KL5DNIYXKTXTW2W5BLXF}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:23:49.103743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f8dfaed4be8da8c5d53bcedab742bb951ee35afec96cdd693bf3886dd1e55ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.1050 · arxiv_version: 1003.1050v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.1050 · pith_short_12: T6G7V3KL5DNI · pith_short_16: T6G7V3KL5DNIYXKT · pith_short_8: T6G7V3KL

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/T6G7V3KL5DNIYXKTXTW2W5BLXF \
  | 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: 9f8dfaed4be8da8c5d53bcedab742bb951ee35afec96cdd693bf3886dd1e55ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf83068d8b74b9208b6407cf53d8b788000886321eaa008774f6cac061347315",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-04T14:21:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "607eb192129532d6a7265d33eba638ab64bf1d0f58d0412580d0a1638fcfe48a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.1050",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}