Pith Number

pith:7ZNYODRM

pith:2011:7ZNYODRMQKV4LZAHLYL3NFFQ37

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Imperfect Linear Optical Photonic Gates with Number-Resolving Photodetection

A. Matthew Smith, D. B. Uskov, L. H. Ying, L. Kaplan

arxiv:1105.4211 v1 · 2011-05-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7ZNYODRMQKV4LZAHLYL3NFFQ37}

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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	2026-05-18T03:51:35.936218Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fe5b870e2c82abc5e4075e17b694b0dfeb14a55cc7c97f446d5bde43bd8dfcc8

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.4211 · arxiv_version: 1105.4211v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.4211 · pith_short_12: 7ZNYODRMQKV4 · pith_short_16: 7ZNYODRMQKV4LZAH · pith_short_8: 7ZNYODRM

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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/7ZNYODRMQKV4LZAHLYL3NFFQ37 \
  | 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: fe5b870e2c82abc5e4075e17b694b0dfeb14a55cc7c97f446d5bde43bd8dfcc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bba27e4c740fd30e1ed7513b9dff60587aac8ccf39a5b1fd57a72828e06a985",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-21T04:06:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89b393cbc2d9551dd7d9ae224e40dcacfc83de4e2ac873b6a18433e41a0503a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.4211",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}