Pith Number

pith:HYXSCNUH

pith:2002:HYXSCNUH5CEBCYAFC6J2WB7GZU

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Imperfect Detectors in Linear Optical Quantum Computers

C. E. Tanner, H. M. Vasconcelos, J. M. LoSecco, Scott Glancy

arxiv:quant-ph/0201047 v1 · 2002-01-11 · quant-ph

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:55:23.946927Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e2f213687e8881160051793ab07e6cd1719a309312d0ac4d1bb2ac6005af67b

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0201047 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0201047v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0201047 · pith_short_12: HYXSCNUH5CEB · pith_short_16: HYXSCNUH5CEBCYAF · pith_short_8: HYXSCNUH

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/HYXSCNUH5CEBCYAFC6J2WB7GZU \
  | 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: 3e2f213687e8881160051793ab07e6cd1719a309312d0ac4d1bb2ac6005af67b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bdf05dc06b003df86e9746b9a9c938c30f1ecfdcb39c1ca2df330cf072eff11e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-01-11T22:51:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1207b05697cf32daa7eb464ab9b9d765975641b58dddd865e044c3dde503045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0201047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}