Pith Number

pith:WQCLZBVY

pith:2016:WQCLZBVYX2EY4PF32KZJS4R2IS

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Efficient recycling strategies for preparing large Fock states from single-photon sources --- Applications to quantum metrology

Alexei Gilchrist, Dominic W. Berry, E. Annelise Bergeron, Jonathan P. Dowling, Jonathan P. Olson, Keith R. Motes, Nicholas M. Studer, Peter P. Rohde, Ryan L. Mann

arxiv:1603.00533 v2 · 2016-03-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WQCLZBVYX2EY4PF32KZJS4R2IS}

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-05-18T00:21:29.283821Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b404bc86b8be898e3cbbd2b299723a44914f37b6c15ce30ea1f4f2e055e92086

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.00533 · arxiv_version: 1603.00533v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.00533 · pith_short_12: WQCLZBVYX2EY · pith_short_16: WQCLZBVYX2EY4PF3 · pith_short_8: WQCLZBVY

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/WQCLZBVYX2EY4PF32KZJS4R2IS \
  | 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: b404bc86b8be898e3cbbd2b299723a44914f37b6c15ce30ea1f4f2e055e92086

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc3c848ae1af35be169e87aa91393b23f6e9775ef8d7048cace58386e3837af2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-02T00:41:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1bb6e3befae5267f772600e827208b05ee112efffd15999df70927d691b99d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.00533",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}