Pith Number

pith:VRFIMYFN

pith:2014:VRFIMYFNTJB33S5FW7FSFVNMVM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Freely Scalable Quantum Technologies using Cells of 5-to-50 Qubits with Very Lossy and Noisy Photonic Links

Joseph F. Fitzsimons, Naomi H. Nickerson, Simon C. Benjamin

arxiv:1406.0880 v2 · 2014-06-03 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRFIMYFNTJB33S5FW7FSFVNMVM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:31:11.618805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac4a8660ad9a43bdcba5b7cb22d5acab142987ab0bff2153be2299c2e82e1a07

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.0880 · arxiv_version: 1406.0880v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.0880 · pith_short_12: VRFIMYFNTJB3 · pith_short_16: VRFIMYFNTJB33S5F · pith_short_8: VRFIMYFN

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/VRFIMYFNTJB33S5FW7FSFVNMVM \
  | 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: ac4a8660ad9a43bdcba5b7cb22d5acab142987ab0bff2153be2299c2e82e1a07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1087d7ac4bed5000c30c7d907dc9a5e4aee2be3fe927eece7a130cdbe212aacf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-03T21:10:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f4c15218ef7ca21c64e79805fcdc4ab0b03bc4b82e542c57533301ac26b6bec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.0880",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}