Pith Number

pith:6C4CKNB3

pith:2017:6C4CKNB3S7AGWBNFNQZPKTEO3O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Arbitrary multimode Gaussian operations on mechanical cluster states

Alessandro Ferraro, Darren W. Moore, Oussama Houhou

arxiv:1705.11183 v2 · 2017-05-31 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6C4CKNB3S7AGWBNFNQZPKTEO3O}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:31.351701Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0b825343b97c06b05a56c32f54c8edba586e5543ff36dd4cf333288559b2c3f

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.11183 · arxiv_version: 1705.11183v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.11183 · pith_short_12: 6C4CKNB3S7AG · pith_short_16: 6C4CKNB3S7AGWBNF · pith_short_8: 6C4CKNB3

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/6C4CKNB3S7AGWBNFNQZPKTEO3O \
  | 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: f0b825343b97c06b05a56c32f54c8edba586e5543ff36dd4cf333288559b2c3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "343536113f0c94a77b5e8ca4e58fb8ee39de70fe0d2a37cd7ce507cc9aa4d038",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-31T17:14:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d994005bf15ba61cdc6c343e56ee07936fa16c374d426a25b0fd1bac2d1585fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.11183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}