Pith Number

pith:Z5GLAHL6

pith:2010:Z5GLAHL6YIOJRD4ABP5UHXWCSC

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Security of high speed quantum key distribution with finite detector dead time

Ben Fortescue, Bing Qi, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Viacheslav Burenkov

arxiv:1005.0272 v1 · 2010-05-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z5GLAHL6YIOJRD4ABP5UHXWCSC}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:24:09.258095Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf4cb01d7ec21c988f800bfb43dec290af12a4224c88e7c6ef4cfab040050d92

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.0272 · arxiv_version: 1005.0272v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.0272 · pith_short_12: Z5GLAHL6YIOJ · pith_short_16: Z5GLAHL6YIOJRD4A · pith_short_8: Z5GLAHL6

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/Z5GLAHL6YIOJRD4ABP5UHXWCSC \
  | 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: cf4cb01d7ec21c988f800bfb43dec290af12a4224c88e7c6ef4cfab040050d92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "38b55bb2d28f3fb5489dc92eae020fb3bd19ad0e6cdc37b0e9c92dfc6e4f5717",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-03T12:32:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56d66142ad5be1bd3fb0af4b7dc4e2a818097a0da2de7d2aeba3f4322cae05e6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.0272",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}