Pith Number

pith:BZGESC3M

pith:2016:BZGESC3MYQEFIQWA6Y25C4OOZD

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Group transformations and entangled-state quantum gates with directionally unbiased linear-optical multiports

Alexander V. Sergienko, Casey A. Fitzpatrick, David S. Simon

arxiv:1604.06476 v1 · 2016-04-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZGESC3MYQEFIQWA6Y25C4OOZD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:16:04.640599Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e4c490b6cc4085442c0f635d171cec8e39e8944ece91e95e01aab88a6ba0c3e

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.06476 · arxiv_version: 1604.06476v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.06476 · pith_short_12: BZGESC3MYQEF · pith_short_16: BZGESC3MYQEFIQWA · pith_short_8: BZGESC3M

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/BZGESC3MYQEFIQWA6Y25C4OOZD \
  | 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: 0e4c490b6cc4085442c0f635d171cec8e39e8944ece91e95e01aab88a6ba0c3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef86c7ff483a57d33406a3514a6bc61f1daf0b632de4526d926e460d066ec6f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-21T20:14:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8dae5d3b0e4afb0f272b9a0877354359b25a9131a11231f1773f3dfc6750bc9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.06476",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}