Pith Number

pith:VK3MYTJC

pith:2016:VK3MYTJCNT4W4CV43LPT74OUC5

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Optimal and near-optimal probe states for quantum metrology of number conserving two-mode bosonic Hamiltonians

T.J. Volkoff

arxiv:1610.05807 v1 · 2016-10-18 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VK3MYTJCNT4W4CV43LPT74OUC5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:57:25.500232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aab6cc4d226cf96e0abcdadf3ff1d4175c6e975127af78ff623953001037ce8b

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.05807 · arxiv_version: 1610.05807v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.05807 · pith_short_12: VK3MYTJCNT4W · pith_short_16: VK3MYTJCNT4W4CV4 · pith_short_8: VK3MYTJC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VK3MYTJCNT4W4CV43LPT74OUC5 \
  | 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: aab6cc4d226cf96e0abcdadf3ff1d4175c6e975127af78ff623953001037ce8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75128840309caaf0c7ade07d923edaa9c5032e3d4d44531262b75eddabb1006e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-18T21:31:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2846c02efdc0f5676d3546a8703fadb5701caa1053865b656820cb78d5888943"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.05807",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}