Pith Number

pith:OSFE4KWI

pith:2016:OSFE4KWIDUJWHNXSBGTQIFTWMF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Passive states as optimal inputs for single-jump lossy quantum channels

Andrea Mari, Giacomo De Palma, Seth Lloyd, Vittorio Giovannetti

arxiv:1603.05798 v2 · 2016-03-18 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OSFE4KWIDUJWHNXSBGTQIFTWMF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:31.331690Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

748a4e2ac81d1363b6f209a7041676614cb18d3945c003e2107a05e5860a4515

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.05798 · arxiv_version: 1603.05798v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.05798 · pith_short_12: OSFE4KWIDUJW · pith_short_16: OSFE4KWIDUJWHNXS · pith_short_8: OSFE4KWI

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/OSFE4KWIDUJWHNXSBGTQIFTWMF \
  | 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: 748a4e2ac81d1363b6f209a7041676614cb18d3945c003e2107a05e5860a4515

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "baffa58bf5ec86d7b0abc67d488510127b669e5ee76b11d3fd60a156d954d0fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-18T09:04:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bde1dd13bc39e89e2ce6f6aeaf3b8e2b58f0429379f3c56ca820c3900129f932"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.05798",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}