Pith Number

pith:A5FWM5GR

pith:2018:A5FWM5GRH7FMVZ5IDGAHC3JZMV

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The Multiphoton Boson Sampling Machine Doesn't Beat Early Classical Computers for Five-boson Sampling

Jianhua Zheng, Shenghui Su

arxiv:1802.02779 v2 · 2018-02-08 · cs.CC · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:53.587010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

074b6674d13fcacae7a81980716d3965680a88a8e94247bcda8b85e54a044e61

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02779 · arxiv_version: 1802.02779v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02779 · pith_short_12: A5FWM5GRH7FM · pith_short_16: A5FWM5GRH7FMVZ5I · pith_short_8: A5FWM5GR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A5FWM5GRH7FMVZ5IDGAHC3JZMV \
  | 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: 074b6674d13fcacae7a81980716d3965680a88a8e94247bcda8b85e54a044e61

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "351e019a5a7722f86fc9224895f7e1e73b358a195626257efd96cc7b45f4df9f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-08T10:09:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4db02c5b2d5a2a9c06d3cc2eb0dc68f49888ba4e7b46b26968af5cbe8b273e8c"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}