Pith Number

pith:TJE4LQDK

pith:2020:TJE4LQDK5HT5DNRAX6KYNTTTCZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum key distribution with multiphoton pulses: An advantage

Anindya Banerji, Ayan Biswas, Nijil Lal, Pooja Chandravanshi, Ravindra P. Singh, Rupesh Kumar

arxiv:2008.07166 v2 · 2020-08-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TJE4LQDK5HT5DNRAX6KYNTTTCZ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-05T03:35:06.823877Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a49c5c06ae9e7d1b620bf9586ce73167b3843f2743df78cdfc12fbcbe0fc376

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.07166 · arxiv_version: 2008.07166v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.07166 · pith_short_12: TJE4LQDK5HT5 · pith_short_16: TJE4LQDK5HT5DNRA · pith_short_8: TJE4LQDK

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/TJE4LQDK5HT5DNRAX6KYNTTTCZ \
  | 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: 9a49c5c06ae9e7d1b620bf9586ce73167b3843f2743df78cdfc12fbcbe0fc376

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f21f2db3f4334be4245378ed606e86358a4ab3d6f0b46b7facc0b24186429a5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-17T09:08:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db8196a4cf9a6c692fda953cfc76a933ed1ea416d6129902099e95f01f661fd6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.07166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}