Pith Number

pith:IA3IATVF

pith:2026:IA3IATVFFZXKK2R7FXEV3KHVH5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scalable high-fidelity and near-deterministic preparation of large photon-number states

Chuanzhen Cao, Jinbin Li, Jize Han, Ming Xue, Mo Xiong, Zhiguo Huang

arxiv:2601.10559 v3 · 2026-01-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IA3IATVFFZXKK2R7FXEV3KHVH5}

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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	2026-07-21T00:19:54.673904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4036804ea52e6ea56a3f2dc95da8f53f640000b7c3595f00fe43f7ac8db2c8b5

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.10559 · arxiv_version: 2601.10559v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.10559 · pith_short_12: IA3IATVFFZXK · pith_short_16: IA3IATVFFZXKK2R7 · pith_short_8: IA3IATVF

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/IA3IATVFFZXKK2R7FXEV3KHVH5 \
  | 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: 4036804ea52e6ea56a3f2dc95da8f53f640000b7c3595f00fe43f7ac8db2c8b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e26512955ae3e597c45abc11267a2fde1cd5531942aa703d7736313f62079bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-15T16:23:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "616ea5b2d54a55bd3436be7b42541502c3b294176a7ac649f84bc695a0218ede"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.10559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}