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pith:Q2GSFYMW

pith:2017:Q2GSFYMWUF6NQ3GOLBSV5ZTPLO

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Divergence-free approach for obtaining decompositions of quantum-optical processes

J. S. Ivan, K. K. Sabapathy, R. Garc\'ia-Patr\'on, R. Simon

arxiv:1708.04256 v2 · 2017-08-14 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:35.133396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

868d22e196a17cd86cce58655ee66f5bbc9da4a1b6ea62fbbde258bf7b68b895

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arxiv: 1708.04256 · arxiv_version: 1708.04256v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04256 · pith_short_12: Q2GSFYMWUF6N · pith_short_16: Q2GSFYMWUF6NQ3GO · pith_short_8: Q2GSFYMW

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q2GSFYMWUF6NQ3GOLBSV5ZTPLO \
  | 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: 868d22e196a17cd86cce58655ee66f5bbc9da4a1b6ea62fbbde258bf7b68b895

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-14T18:06:48Z",
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