Pith Number

pith:INQYOGM6

pith:2018:INQYOGM6VUJKKVPNCLJTBYUG6S

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Modular Linear Optical Circuits

Benjamin J. Metcalf, Devin H. Smith, Ian A. Walmsley, James C. Gates, Jelmer J. Renema, Paolo L. Mennea, Peter G. R. Smith, Rex H. S. Bannerman, Roel Burgwal, William R. Clements, W. Steven Kolthammer

arxiv:1803.04539 v1 · 2018-03-12 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{INQYOGM6VUJKKVPNCLJTBYUG6S}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:21:18.771353Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

436187199ead12a555ed12d330e286f49526245f3d3935c4609b07a1b44fb166

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04539 · arxiv_version: 1803.04539v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04539 · pith_short_12: INQYOGM6VUJK · pith_short_16: INQYOGM6VUJKKVPN · pith_short_8: INQYOGM6

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/INQYOGM6VUJKKVPNCLJTBYUG6S \
  | 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: 436187199ead12a555ed12d330e286f49526245f3d3935c4609b07a1b44fb166

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afe58de20ad34b42ce89b810e8d93ab1fbc43ec01d53e210fe3b3720b2e3e7bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-12T21:18:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4e63d60e93a1183c29fe4cc23344980cb8fb5c7f0e222c354a4a34491ce661b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04539",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}