Pith Number

pith:I5JVXA3L

pith:2024:I5JVXA3LOYM32HGALA3UAXNNNF

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Simulating lossy and partially distinguishable quantum optical circuits: theory, algorithms and applications to experiment validation and state preparation

Bryn A. Bell, Jacob F.F. Bulmer, Javier Mart\'inez-Cifuentes, Nicol\'as Quesada

arxiv:2412.17742 v3 · 2024-12-23 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{I5JVXA3LOYM32HGALA3UAXNNNF}

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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	2026-07-05T11:53:43.396924Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47535b836b7619bd1cc05837405dad6960aa7a259dccc89bc567a02e197d893c

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.17742 · arxiv_version: 2412.17742v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.17742 · pith_short_12: I5JVXA3LOYM3 · pith_short_16: I5JVXA3LOYM32HGA · pith_short_8: I5JVXA3L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I5JVXA3LOYM32HGALA3UAXNNNF \
  | 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: 47535b836b7619bd1cc05837405dad6960aa7a259dccc89bc567a02e197d893c

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "143a65d6f9d93665e9750e4b0afa42d71a06177668d334c16e85d2a7caef2d78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-23T17:45:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6902938ff1bac35b8632445ffe15c07a8266ac8fddab3ffacfd3547c68b9ea12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.17742",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}