Pith Number

pith:BBQXBW2L

pith:2006:BBQXBW2LV4WQUNZMY7U56UUWFZ

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A non-adiabatic approach to entanglement distribution over long distances

Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Mohsen Razavi

arxiv:quant-ph/0611017 v2 · 2006-11-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BBQXBW2LV4WQUNZMY7U56UUWFZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:24:19.288506Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

086170db4baf2d0a372cc7e9df52962e4d0297b6b17f64060a215b0ed831ca31

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0611017 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0611017v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0611017 · pith_short_12: BBQXBW2LV4WQ · pith_short_16: BBQXBW2LV4WQUNZM · pith_short_8: BBQXBW2L

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/BBQXBW2LV4WQUNZMY7U56UUWFZ \
  | 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: 086170db4baf2d0a372cc7e9df52962e4d0297b6b17f64060a215b0ed831ca31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d446bee413555cc1a9ce6b90a0e1af576ca1c6508f34565a129e0b178e49344",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-01T21:32:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c96a76bf54f0ae7a1ebb681e99005520689cdb00932e9df5d6154571cac20ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0611017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}