Pith Number

pith:GGTYHSKM

pith:2004:GGTYHSKMYWIPTMZGEGH5Y3S4LP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A near deterministic linear optical CNOT gate

Kae Nemoto, W. J. Munro

arxiv:quant-ph/0408118 v2 · 2004-08-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GGTYHSKMYWIPTMZGEGH5Y3S4LP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-04T16:50:23.256756Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

31a783c94cc590f9b326218fdc6e5c5bd99eac99dfae01571ca365f8948518e8

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0408118 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0408118v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0408118 · pith_short_12: GGTYHSKMYWIP · pith_short_16: GGTYHSKMYWIPTMZG · pith_short_8: GGTYHSKM

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/GGTYHSKMYWIPTMZGEGH5Y3S4LP \
  | 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: 31a783c94cc590f9b326218fdc6e5c5bd99eac99dfae01571ca365f8948518e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73c29ba7c5da0e2640b441bb0db80663c2efa5955a89620daf5054f7ae044384",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-19T01:29:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b5325f9454b8cb6c6547e2b304eff12c862dc3abd000a2019f0c07ef1e5f050"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0408118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}