Pith Number

pith:MDPZXMHV

pith:2016:MDPZXMHVCT6C3AQC4HGBQSCPZ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measurement-Based Linear Optics

Natasha C. Gabay, Nicolas C. Menicucci, Peter P. Rohde, Rafael N. Alexander

arxiv:1606.00446 v2 · 2016-06-01 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDPZXMHVCT6C3AQC4HGBQSCPZ3}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:48:37.319166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60df9bb0f514fc2d8202e1cc18484fcecc8dc0825014eddb2d177b5e71f46832

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.00446 · arxiv_version: 1606.00446v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.00446 · pith_short_12: MDPZXMHVCT6C · pith_short_16: MDPZXMHVCT6C3AQC · pith_short_8: MDPZXMHV

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/MDPZXMHVCT6C3AQC4HGBQSCPZ3 \
  | 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: 60df9bb0f514fc2d8202e1cc18484fcecc8dc0825014eddb2d177b5e71f46832

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d389cc43f1ab7ee8d38b889707aeed0172410f6092ce0849f89853ee4d2dce6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-01T20:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8be57663618a8958ad1e6130d1bfae3555b42ace7900de97831bfd517693f2ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.00446",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}