Pith Number

pith:I34W26R5

pith:2012:I34W26R5EM6GOCVLRZZJAJHJPV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Erasing Quantum Distinguishability via Single-Mode Filtering

Joseph B. Altepeter, Monika Patel, Neal N. Oza, Prem Kumar, Yu-ping Huang

arxiv:1205.4346 v1 · 2012-05-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I34W26R5EM6GOCVLRZZJAJHJPV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:25.407516Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46f96d7a3d233c670aab8e729024e97d5dddbf1e3758a16506068bce7e450e08

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4346 · arxiv_version: 1205.4346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4346 · pith_short_12: I34W26R5EM6G · pith_short_16: I34W26R5EM6GOCVL · pith_short_8: I34W26R5

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/I34W26R5EM6GOCVLRZZJAJHJPV \
  | 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: 46f96d7a3d233c670aab8e729024e97d5dddbf1e3758a16506068bce7e450e08

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "281c81b58281e17a80742842268e250e9d1c1bb5a6e189f718045dfdff1baad1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-19T16:54:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7538bdf769aa781745e80e2b7b4e3de867586534fd6f83af4d2e342a0096402d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}