Pith Number

pith:VP7AVAKR

pith:2017:VP7AVAKRWXX42GC3NDMG23DSV6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Entanglement Distillation for Quantum Channels with Polarization Mode Dispersion

Brian T. Kirby, Liangzhong Ruan, Michael Brodsky, Moe Z. Win

arxiv:1706.07464 v4 · 2017-06-22 · quant-ph · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VP7AVAKRWXX42GC3NDMG23DSV6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:04:32.507497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abfe0a8151b5efcd185b68d86d6c72afb0ea6c10e50676be118db59db0ba8b0f

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.07464 · arxiv_version: 1706.07464v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.07464 · pith_short_12: VP7AVAKRWXX4 · pith_short_16: VP7AVAKRWXX42GC3 · pith_short_8: VP7AVAKR

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/VP7AVAKRWXX42GC3NDMG23DSV6 \
  | 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: abfe0a8151b5efcd185b68d86d6c72afb0ea6c10e50676be118db59db0ba8b0f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5212e912d8b2da187edc62e41c1e0aa7b36849e880437493576f4ba57c688cca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-22T19:17:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18420ab56bd24a8cda5614f15548e7f996a17db89d18f941ede81f0dc57cb6dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.07464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}