Pith Number

pith:AB4A64U5

pith:2015:AB4A64U5V2V3SOOKNPFVD3XVQR

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Direct measurement of large-scale quantum states

Eliot Bolduc, Genevieve Gariepy, Jonathan Leach

arxiv:1506.00851 v2 · 2015-06-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AB4A64U5V2V3SOOKNPFVD3XVQR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:28:04.828835Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

00780f729daeabb939ca6bcb51eef5845a3550341c2b4f4373a939e6ac97e238

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.00851 · arxiv_version: 1506.00851v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.00851 · pith_short_12: AB4A64U5V2V3 · pith_short_16: AB4A64U5V2V3SOOK · pith_short_8: AB4A64U5

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/AB4A64U5V2V3SOOKNPFVD3XVQR \
  | 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: 00780f729daeabb939ca6bcb51eef5845a3550341c2b4f4373a939e6ac97e238

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7b1694fdd0f0205a34a88fecccaa15cff74fe0df4edb094bf51d7bfc6e5e401",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-02T12:00:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "764bb41f60a5dff8d952ca9a5357ba9d7837c183dc1827263e2850cfaee52d4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.00851",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}