Pith Number

pith:6SGCY3U2

pith:2026:6SGCY3U2ODHJKZWLT7W7P7IDES

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Compound beams for direct experimental comparison of quantum operations

Antonin Cernoch, Jan Perina Jr., Kishore Thapliyal, Pavel Pavlicek

arxiv:2608.09518 v1 · 2026-08-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6SGCY3U2ODHJKZWLT7W7P7IDES}

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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	2026-08-11T02:24:23.664150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f48c2c6e9a70ce9566cb9fedf7fd0324a83243901dc01678036296b6e733c569

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09518 · arxiv_version: 2608.09518v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09518 · pith_short_12: 6SGCY3U2ODHJ · pith_short_16: 6SGCY3U2ODHJKZWL · pith_short_8: 6SGCY3U2

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/6SGCY3U2ODHJKZWLT7W7P7IDES \
  | 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: f48c2c6e9a70ce9566cb9fedf7fd0324a83243901dc01678036296b6e733c569

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b8b81909fd523c93d97c9489a97fc5a87d64b00c97b258189238ddc3bea2900",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T12:16:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c36289ab017df49f27eb86c901310b06d613b86343a103481a75b107b4ba1e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}