Pith Number

pith:WF6VHHFX

pith:2014:WF6VHHFX5DZVJATRPVKCAIJYUD

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Rate-loss analysis of an efficient quantum repeater architecture

Christopher A. Fuchs, Christoph Simon, Hari Krovi, Joshua A. Slater, Saikat Guha, Wolfgang Tittel, Zachary Dutton

arxiv:1404.7183 v5 · 2014-04-28 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{WF6VHHFX5DZVJATRPVKCAIJYUD}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:33:16.717035Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b17d539cb7e8f35482717d54202138a0e351a0314a2d726cde53e5cec13e19b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.7183 · arxiv_version: 1404.7183v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.7183 · pith_short_12: WF6VHHFX5DZV · pith_short_16: WF6VHHFX5DZVJATR · pith_short_8: WF6VHHFX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WF6VHHFX5DZVJATRPVKCAIJYUD \
  | 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: b17d539cb7e8f35482717d54202138a0e351a0314a2d726cde53e5cec13e19b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db28fd4a5319d4a2f0a5716220abd64a40a8190a8f7b6f4b98b43afac0e16b19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-28T22:02:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ed158b55a2e00543feb4a5647d4ae445c0fd6536d2c84cd232e8f8fb3002542"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.7183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}