Pith Number

pith:A4FFSV2I

pith:2008:A4FFSV2I7DGAVTBYKCOHVEBJV7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maximal Success Probabilities of Linear-Optical Quantum Gates

A. Matthew Smith, Dmitry B. Uskov, Jonathan P. Dowling, Lev Kaplan, Sean D. Huver

arxiv:0808.1926 v2 · 2008-08-14 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A4FFSV2I7DGAVTBYKCOHVEBJV7}

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:43.312938Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

070a595748f8cc0acc38509c7a9029afd1ff6e4c51d8ca386edaec2a153dede7

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.1926 · arxiv_version: 0808.1926v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.1926 · pith_short_12: A4FFSV2I7DGA · pith_short_16: A4FFSV2I7DGAVTBY · pith_short_8: A4FFSV2I

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/A4FFSV2I7DGAVTBYKCOHVEBJV7 \
  | 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: 070a595748f8cc0acc38509c7a9029afd1ff6e4c51d8ca386edaec2a153dede7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09af7348650e01190fee8e8e0fc186551137af1f779dd095dd6a0325997e956a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-14T17:28:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "80c9913cf8891b0c2812721943293a4d4eadd6fbdb114b1fd549b1fe78680daa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.1926",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}