Pith Number

pith:4JSKCD45

pith:2010:4JSKCD45BGWG4P4WT6VL2CWYB7

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Are quantum walks the saviour of optical quantum computing?

Peter P. Rohde

arxiv:1010.4608 v2 · 2010-10-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4JSKCD45BGWG4P4WT6VL2CWYB7}

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:12.562925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e264a10f9d09ac6e3f969faabd0ad80fd035dcb025983256c97e81af120f9114

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.4608 · arxiv_version: 1010.4608v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.4608 · pith_short_12: 4JSKCD45BGWG · pith_short_16: 4JSKCD45BGWG4P4W · pith_short_8: 4JSKCD45

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/4JSKCD45BGWG4P4WT6VL2CWYB7 \
  | 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: e264a10f9d09ac6e3f969faabd0ad80fd035dcb025983256c97e81af120f9114

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a76fb45069748629e296c077e1976fa0036b7aa409b6f1666f6fce9c9f27b0ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-22T03:40:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "214d1b9af2a7c7a51a1a6b2ceddbc434bfa94179e1b9acc7f09b966e8938590d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.4608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}