Pith Number

pith:VMQGMXDY

pith:2026:VMQGMXDYTT7B5ETXQH2RDKMLQG

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Eliminating photon transport in long-baseline optical interferometry using quantum memories

Aqil Sajjad, Brittany McClinton, Chaohan Cui, Daniel Gottesman, Emil T. Khabiboulline, Fredrik Rantakyro, Jayadev Rajagopal, J. Gabriel Richardson, Joohyung Song, Saikat Guha, Stephen Ridgway, William DeRocco, Yousef K. Chahine, Zhenning Liu

arxiv:2608.10078 v1 · 2026-08-10 · quant-ph · astro-ph.IM

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\pithnumber{VMQGMXDYTT7B5ETXQH2RDKMLQG}

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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	2026-08-12T00:22:44.568724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab20665c789cfe1e927781f511a98b81bf53be0d6ad817fb786162d791a501ec

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10078 · arxiv_version: 2608.10078v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10078 · pith_short_12: VMQGMXDYTT7B · pith_short_16: VMQGMXDYTT7B5ETX · pith_short_8: VMQGMXDY

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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/VMQGMXDYTT7B5ETXQH2RDKMLQG \
  | 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: ab20665c789cfe1e927781f511a98b81bf53be0d6ad817fb786162d791a501ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c447def2ae4327d02b5ba582570b04ce6a1e397817b0a4b82c7b18e118e22725",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-10T18:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44ab398bcefd7e1df7a471545e6b10195d697447df18d883aadb2a9d0da317f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}