Pith Number

pith:ZG2ZB6CR

pith:2003:ZG2ZB6CRUDOWHBLH7SQ2QMMXGT

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Quantum key distribution using gaussian-modulated coherent states

F. Grosshans, G. Van Assche, J. Wenger, N. J. Cerf, Ph. Grangier, R. Brouri

arxiv:quant-ph/0312016 v1 · 2003-12-02 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:43:18.953923Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9b590f851a0dd638567fca1a8319734c341adc064291a514fd6dc40bc108e49

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0312016 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0312016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0312016 · pith_short_12: ZG2ZB6CRUDOW · pith_short_16: ZG2ZB6CRUDOWHBLH · pith_short_8: ZG2ZB6CR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZG2ZB6CRUDOWHBLH7SQ2QMMXGT \
  | 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: c9b590f851a0dd638567fca1a8319734c341adc064291a514fd6dc40bc108e49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68a6c8f95af295832f44f867dbf4af2afee2639c9687e4bdc8ea61d869aa660c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-02T09:45:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62e9dfa4f810a228a80bfebc1a6b769ca0a16469f0ff290e86f54d96fb432ab3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0312016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}