Pith Number

pith:ZZVKF2ER

pith:2017:ZZVKF2ERNXYZPNQFSQ5YE34SZM

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Maximal trace distance between isoenergetic bosonic Gaussian states

T.J. Volkoff

arxiv:1706.05807 v2 · 2017-06-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZZVKF2ERNXYZPNQFSQ5YE34SZM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:57.154085Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce6aa2e8916df197b605943b826f92cb302f2436886f9eeb009757fe19817388

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05807 · arxiv_version: 1706.05807v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05807 · pith_short_12: ZZVKF2ERNXYZ · pith_short_16: ZZVKF2ERNXYZPNQF · pith_short_8: ZZVKF2ER

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/ZZVKF2ERNXYZPNQFSQ5YE34SZM \
  | 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: ce6aa2e8916df197b605943b826f92cb302f2436886f9eeb009757fe19817388

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8e8c0d969a635ccec53f0c20a811ec13f2c79033dd2e43e780a0fc764c7bbcb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-19T07:18:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9354ad6fd33f32f5a1832a1064678b8ed1a05196f35f01641a4023c2d1578527"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05807",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}