Pith Number

pith:2M5SXU6P

pith:2006:2M5SXU6PLJITIMY36VHYLEP3AT

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On the distinguishability of random quantum states

Ashley Montanaro

arxiv:quant-ph/0607011 v2 · 2006-07-03 · quant-ph

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Getting almost all the bits from a quantum random access code

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First computed	2026-07-04T17:03:30.387238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d33b2bd3cf5a5134331bf54f8591fb04c87ea6b4e7d114508279c121f48ae9f7

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0607011 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0607011v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0607011 · pith_short_12: 2M5SXU6PLJIT · pith_short_16: 2M5SXU6PLJITIMY3 · pith_short_8: 2M5SXU6P

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2M5SXU6PLJITIMY36VHYLEP3AT \
  | 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: d33b2bd3cf5a5134331bf54f8591fb04c87ea6b4e7d114508279c121f48ae9f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "769ab3a925709d523e4f57bdaa576188360ef2f733e6fcb2c6b56480d26db9cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-07-03T08:27:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ca34b0946d0ec5026482b4851d78946fea237f1cbfc02106a66c71aefdc5dd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0607011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}