Pith Number

pith:NXFMXA73

pith:2026:NXFMXA73AEQ4RDRS242NCNDIPW

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An efficient Progressive Swapping to the Middle distribution protocol adapted to imperfect quantum memories in quantum networks

Claire Goursaud, Claire Mesny, Fabrice Guillemin

arxiv:2605.31493 v1 · 2026-05-29 · quant-ph · cs.NI

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\pithnumber{NXFMXA73AEQ4RDRS242NCNDIPW}

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First computed	2026-06-01T02:04:09.091110Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6dcacb83fb0121c88e32d734d134687d94aeb417eeabacdea1d52ac163b00606

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.31493 · arxiv_version: 2605.31493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.31493 · pith_short_12: NXFMXA73AEQ4 · pith_short_16: NXFMXA73AEQ4RDRS · pith_short_8: NXFMXA73

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NXFMXA73AEQ4RDRS242NCNDIPW \
  | 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: 6dcacb83fb0121c88e32d734d134687d94aeb417eeabacdea1d52ac163b00606

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6f8aee6e7cc70defeab28d6c644952f58a2cfcc07d426dcc76b15280417e5fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-29T16:15:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acd340f6e4d9ea1b4e1a6e097c81817f6f7cde015f68ed51899be61d12ab7db1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}