Pith Number

pith:LDUOB47J

pith:2003:LDUOB47JJUOR7GJFGBFZKMUO5H

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Schrodinger cats and their power for quantum information processing

A. Gilchrist, G. J. Milburn, Kae Nemoto, Samuel. L. Braunstein, S. Glancy, T. C. Ralph, W. J. Munro

arxiv:quant-ph/0312194 v1 · 2003-12-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LDUOB47JJUOR7GJFGBFZKMUO5H}

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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	2026-07-04T16:43:20.238184Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58e8e0f3e94d1d1f9925304b95328ee9cd833cfd037802f03cfdd8e5a8dd1055

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0312194 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0312194v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0312194 · pith_short_12: LDUOB47JJUOR · pith_short_16: LDUOB47JJUOR7GJF · pith_short_8: LDUOB47J

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/LDUOB47JJUOR7GJFGBFZKMUO5H \
  | 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: 58e8e0f3e94d1d1f9925304b95328ee9cd833cfd037802f03cfdd8e5a8dd1055

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7b2fc3bd4c182a21486fce7a512dba4ff1bb9e874064dfdb6138788fd17d893",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-24T02:58:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89b1ee8bb52cfd3838a00617980967ad6893af2f96545e2a59c073e1147da726"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0312194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}