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pith:5SY6YNTN

pith:2015:5SY6YNTNY2DC4D5IXTOQHDTF2H

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An almost convincing scheme for discriminating the preparation basis of quantum ensemble and why it will not work

Rajeev Singh, Sandeep K Goyal, Sibasish Ghosh

arxiv:1511.03149 v2 · 2015-11-10 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{5SY6YNTNY2DC4D5IXTOQHDTF2H}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:05.739109Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ecb1ec366dc6862e0fa8bcdd038e65d1fdf9cb9ffe93ebbff9a2e6db9c7a7ffc

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.03149 · arxiv_version: 1511.03149v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.03149 · pith_short_12: 5SY6YNTNY2DC · pith_short_16: 5SY6YNTNY2DC4D5I · pith_short_8: 5SY6YNTN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5SY6YNTNY2DC4D5IXTOQHDTF2H \
  | 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: ecb1ec366dc6862e0fa8bcdd038e65d1fdf9cb9ffe93ebbff9a2e6db9c7a7ffc

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-10T15:41:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d51fdccef97de3921417ceb95f6f8ea57c7cef0e16c8b38142025ea8c1eb0f6"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1511.03149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}