Pith Number

pith:XHVMNXCR

pith:2014:XHVMNXCRHSS3OEWB7UJ6CTHM66

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sampling arbitrary photon-added or photon-subtracted squeezed states is in the same complexity class as boson sampling

Jonathan P. Dowling, Jonathan P. Olson, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Keith R. Motes, Peter P. Rohde

arxiv:1406.7821 v3 · 2014-06-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XHVMNXCRHSS3OEWB7UJ6CTHM66}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:26:02.637546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9eac6dc513ca5b712c1fd13e14cecf7acbe0349c7fac1346fdefc20654f41ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.7821 · arxiv_version: 1406.7821v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.7821 · pith_short_12: XHVMNXCRHSS3 · pith_short_16: XHVMNXCRHSS3OEWB · pith_short_8: XHVMNXCR

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/XHVMNXCRHSS3OEWB7UJ6CTHM66 \
  | 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: b9eac6dc513ca5b712c1fd13e14cecf7acbe0349c7fac1346fdefc20654f41ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0bf62881c6ad03fa42d307b01d58289c203db46aa88c7ada001cc6a75e1be2be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-30T17:20:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1dd67b6d9eb02332962b52c825cbb812d05ad8626d4cd17a26a765c8b8a01aea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.7821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}