Pith Number

pith:3MLSDTBE

pith:2017:3MLSDTBEMC4DI3KWZVB5FLXGOO

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Implementing random unitaries in an imperfect photonic network

Devin H. Smith, Ian A. Walmsley, James C. Gates, Jelmer J. Renema, Roel Burgwal, William R. Clements, W. Steven Kolthammer

arxiv:1704.01945 v1 · 2017-04-06 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MLSDTBEMC4DI3KWZVB5FLXGOO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:53.996922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db1721cc2460b8346d56cd43d2aee6738c5eca8c5cd0a8709507d3144c4080fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.01945 · arxiv_version: 1704.01945v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.01945 · pith_short_12: 3MLSDTBEMC4D · pith_short_16: 3MLSDTBEMC4DI3KW · pith_short_8: 3MLSDTBE

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/3MLSDTBEMC4DI3KWZVB5FLXGOO \
  | 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: db1721cc2460b8346d56cd43d2aee6738c5eca8c5cd0a8709507d3144c4080fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06062b4a9f5acfcfc95b29d39e03e4b34f82809eefc8306d784029d337fe5138",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-06T17:25:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "add72a7a37776b46841137947e4efdffab9b07765328f47decd5162a5e66bc07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.01945",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}