Pith Number

pith:UP4WMYH7

pith:2026:UP4WMYH7CC45FIU7CQFGMEBP3I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gate-based emulation of boson sampling using photonic qubits

Aastha P. Zalone, C. M. Chandrashekar, S. P. Dinesh

arxiv:2608.09509 v1 · 2026-08-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UP4WMYH7CC45FIU7CQFGMEBP3I}

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4 Citations 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	2026-08-11T02:24:22.060971Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a3f96660ff10b9d2a29f140a66102fda085a3085211a629fe58ac8cdad574146

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.09509 · arxiv_version: 2608.09509v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.09509 · pith_short_12: UP4WMYH7CC45 · pith_short_16: UP4WMYH7CC45FIU7 · pith_short_8: UP4WMYH7

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/UP4WMYH7CC45FIU7CQFGMEBP3I \
  | 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: a3f96660ff10b9d2a29f140a66102fda085a3085211a629fe58ac8cdad574146

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1c71abd14d8eec1116bfcf2a6e2e6ec62ea6e7205ae1e344da4ddbbe8d2da2f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T12:13:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32dc973b4244a0bb0872fd02105510c6721aabe4e0c54b67d5158dd43a029826"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.09509",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}