Pith Number

pith:6BQDGRP5

pith:2017:6BQDGRP5MXR4QVQM4UCWAR5DMK

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Quantum optical realization of arbitrary linear transformations allowing for loss and gain

Carsten Rockstuhl, Karolina S{\l}owik, Nora Tischler

arxiv:1712.01413 v2 · 2017-12-04 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6BQDGRP5MXR4QVQM4UCWAR5DMK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:31.226739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0603345fd65e3c8560ce5056047a36294ade62df40855787e50b80a90c0b2e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01413 · arxiv_version: 1712.01413v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01413 · pith_short_12: 6BQDGRP5MXR4 · pith_short_16: 6BQDGRP5MXR4QVQM · pith_short_8: 6BQDGRP5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6BQDGRP5MXR4QVQM4UCWAR5DMK \
  | 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: f0603345fd65e3c8560ce5056047a36294ade62df40855787e50b80a90c0b2e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f41cda084a797949d451c92f48007d2200c77f297f1b079ce3f57c989092e63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-04T23:33:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46b8799c939cf3976124649e10eb5776851ad579aad62ced9c0bbb79b6ff2ad1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01413",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}