Pith Number

pith:B6OSBW6K

pith:2016:B6OSBW6KTGIBTBWWF2Z3ASHG4H

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Crystallizing highly-likely subspaces that contain an unknown quantum state of light

Alexander Mikhalychev, Dmitri Mogilevtsev, Jaroslav Rehacek, Yong Siah Teo, Zdenek Hradil

arxiv:1605.06902 v1 · 2016-05-23 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{B6OSBW6KTGIBTBWWF2Z3ASHG4H}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:00.179089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f9d20dbca99901986d62eb3b048e6e1da4ae620336855c6ca09785b82af448d

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.06902 · arxiv_version: 1605.06902v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.06902 · pith_short_12: B6OSBW6KTGIB · pith_short_16: B6OSBW6KTGIBTBWW · pith_short_8: B6OSBW6K

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/B6OSBW6KTGIBTBWWF2Z3ASHG4H \
  | 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: 0f9d20dbca99901986d62eb3b048e6e1da4ae620336855c6ca09785b82af448d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7507821eb1f35c3194c0a89a7e1e7d74bc37d612a54a049863ec3ce80f7f0644",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-23T06:27:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "042f9f677df769372049e2003b8f52329786d6147bfe982ab49da97097d0ed42"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.06902",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}