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pith:MZ34Y2K3

pith:2026:MZ34Y2K3MEXFESARJWVHCVY25A

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Improving the loss threshold for quantum advantage in photonic sensors by complete photon counting

Adriana E. Lita, Aonan Zhang, Gerard J. Machado, Guillaume Thekkadath, Ian A. Walmsley, Juan P. Torres, Martin J. Stevens, Raj B. Patel, Richard P. Mirin, Shang Yu, Yazeed K. Alwehaibi, Zhenghao Li

arxiv:2606.30761 v1 · 2026-06-29 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{MZ34Y2K3MEXFESARJWVHCVY25A}

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First computed	2026-07-01T00:17:16.249597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6677cc695b612e5248114daa71571ae82c0c1c5aec2d7a111a25b9b357c7a3a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.30761 · arxiv_version: 2606.30761v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.30761 · pith_short_12: MZ34Y2K3MEXF · pith_short_16: MZ34Y2K3MEXFESAR · pith_short_8: MZ34Y2K3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MZ34Y2K3MEXFESARJWVHCVY25A \
  | 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: 6677cc695b612e5248114daa71571ae82c0c1c5aec2d7a111a25b9b357c7a3a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c241c00b6c7ce837a207e7a04d499b377480c51572ead579296c3e00fab17572",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-29T18:01:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e63f180fe76a186cf5c6c7c2e766d353253c6663371073b4e0f9a80baa54d2c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.30761",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}