Pith Number

pith:JN4WKG6Z

pith:2016:JN4WKG6ZW2VGYEESGSGQO67RAC

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Towards Quantum Supremacy with Lossy Scattershot Boson Sampling

Fabio Sciarrino, Ludovico Latmiral, Nicol\`o Spagnolo

arxiv:1610.02279 v2 · 2016-10-07 · quant-ph · physics.comp-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JN4WKG6ZW2VGYEESGSGQO67RAC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:57.010041Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b79651bd9b6aa6c1092348d077bf1009c5a78b8d4e55be90a83caf947b9ff88

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02279 · arxiv_version: 1610.02279v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02279 · pith_short_12: JN4WKG6ZW2VG · pith_short_16: JN4WKG6ZW2VGYEES · pith_short_8: JN4WKG6Z

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/JN4WKG6ZW2VGYEESGSGQO67RAC \
  | 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: 4b79651bd9b6aa6c1092348d077bf1009c5a78b8d4e55be90a83caf947b9ff88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9abf7547c21690a8f5991e7f3b3e10667b9d5807df53d2d75bbe60437da459a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-07T13:38:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "787dcc0490ffca040e5c60f527b9f94a6bfc445d5585d083fbcb94c95671c8ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}