Pith Number

pith:3PFLLFW3

pith:2009:3PFLLFW3OMR2DKY6SRJOLNOW2N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Perfect Distinguishability of Quantum Operations

Mingsheng Ying, Runyao Duan, Yuan Feng

arxiv:0908.0119 v1 · 2009-08-03 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PFLLFW3OMR2DKY6SRJOLNOW2N}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:23:58.422019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbcab596db7323a1ab1e9452e5b5d6d3444274e5ea220bbee9fc32281285111f

Aliases

arxiv: 0908.0119 · arxiv_version: 0908.0119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0908.0119 · pith_short_12: 3PFLLFW3OMR2 · pith_short_16: 3PFLLFW3OMR2DKY6 · pith_short_8: 3PFLLFW3

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/3PFLLFW3OMR2DKY6SRJOLNOW2N \
  | 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: dbcab596db7323a1ab1e9452e5b5d6d3444274e5ea220bbee9fc32281285111f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8fa2a4b354b845c023fefb9126cb56e91b41594e2beae3a9a99d34eb9bf8d8e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-08-03T16:22:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4126b28112d41f96d2ac06883de0f0098d17d723ed76b0afcb6eeddf4dad1de2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0908.0119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}