Pith Number

pith:VSEQDAIA

pith:2011:VSEQDAIAJKCKJISJADLDLG3QL6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical Quantum Computation

G.J.Pryde, T.C.Ralph

arxiv:1103.6071 v1 · 2011-03-31 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSEQDAIAJKCKJISJADLDLG3QL6}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:01.050225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac890181004a84a4a24900d6359b705f9ff4ef09010844dbc60b594158d94b18

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.6071 · arxiv_version: 1103.6071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.6071 · pith_short_12: VSEQDAIAJKCK · pith_short_16: VSEQDAIAJKCKJISJ · pith_short_8: VSEQDAIA

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/VSEQDAIAJKCKJISJADLDLG3QL6 \
  | 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: ac890181004a84a4a24900d6359b705f9ff4ef09010844dbc60b594158d94b18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70297b49a501f0dba93ebc28f553d12c0508bdc62f8b96c0141048f856673fd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-31T00:55:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eef11f7d2beb5d8c8227f24b13f8710a14610388fa54ff0d05bc538c9a8d40d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.6071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}