Pith Number

pith:EG3XU7TR

pith:2017:EG3XU7TRNZWNHR7MTVXJBBDQVZ

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Efficient algorithm for boson sampling with partially distinguishable photons

Adrian Menssen, Gil Triginer, Ian A. Walmsley, Jelmer J. Renema, William R. Clements, William S. Kolthammer

arxiv:1707.02793 v1 · 2017-07-10 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{EG3XU7TRNZWNHR7MTVXJBBDQVZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:11.417121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21b77a7e716e6cd3c7ec9d6e908470ae6bef58779cfed8fed21c1b4cc0c120ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.02793 · arxiv_version: 1707.02793v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.02793 · pith_short_12: EG3XU7TRNZWN · pith_short_16: EG3XU7TRNZWNHR7M · pith_short_8: EG3XU7TR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EG3XU7TRNZWNHR7MTVXJBBDQVZ \
  | 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: 21b77a7e716e6cd3c7ec9d6e908470ae6bef58779cfed8fed21c1b4cc0c120ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5579736410e399b3af66c7f7e4057479ef1c072448906a5f8062151d5313c827",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-10T10:54:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fdd74d66b94d4cdb3aa4c85d887730a3e0c43d0f43b3b7422e4c6638b4d60d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.02793",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}