Pith Number

pith:XKXSPD3W

pith:2016:XKXSPD3WQT4J2HRE2MIB72M6RW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The scaling of boson sampling experiments

Bogdan Opanchuk, Laura Rosales-Z\'arate, Margaret D. Reid, Peter D. Drummond, Peter J. Forrester

arxiv:1605.05796 v1 · 2016-05-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XKXSPD3WQT4J2HRE2MIB72M6RW}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:23.923611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

baaf278f7684f89d1e24d3101fe99e8db1b136a45ebf56d658d70c723b549b46

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.05796 · arxiv_version: 1605.05796v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.05796 · pith_short_12: XKXSPD3WQT4J · pith_short_16: XKXSPD3WQT4J2HRE · pith_short_8: XKXSPD3W

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/XKXSPD3WQT4J2HRE2MIB72M6RW \
  | 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: baaf278f7684f89d1e24d3101fe99e8db1b136a45ebf56d658d70c723b549b46

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ecf5d123577f6c370228285966d8ec3fc731b8852b6fceda91f71a5fcf42b34b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-19T02:24:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72ade645e3e4faaaccee0dec3519c07acc65ed8fc8d7eeec07e98a449a5e13e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.05796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}