Pith Number

pith:7JMB4BVP

pith:2000:7JMB4BVPQD3HNFCATVKJYFLQKX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Linear Optics Quantum Computation

E. Knill, G. Milburn, R. Laflamme

arxiv:quant-ph/0006088 v1 · 2000-06-20 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7JMB4BVPQD3HNFCATVKJYFLQKX}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T14:45:29.420261Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa581e06af80f67694409d549c157055ec45ad729c35b973e6b8bcd3d447e9c9

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0006088 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0006088v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0006088 · pith_short_12: 7JMB4BVPQD3H · pith_short_16: 7JMB4BVPQD3HNFCA · pith_short_8: 7JMB4BVP

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/7JMB4BVPQD3HNFCATVKJYFLQKX \
  | 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: fa581e06af80f67694409d549c157055ec45ad729c35b973e6b8bcd3d447e9c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09664b46db814a17a6442f918520ab7fee2add5efff364a1f4bd4fa67167e27e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-06-20T20:40:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d63b1ec888aab74562660bccd19bd75b9f0ef29d681d55dbd988a25de8593a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0006088",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}