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pith:XZ5BOEU3

pith:2002:XZ5BOEU365VCAD65XKWNNW5TSD

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Compression of sources of probability distributions and density operators

Andreas Winter

arxiv:quant-ph/0208131 v1 · 2002-08-21 · quant-ph

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2 papers in Pith

An Operational Framework for Nonclassicality in Quantum Communication Networks

Toward the Goldilocks blind compression of quantum states

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:04.362964Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be7a17129bf76a200fddbaacd6dbb390c5a7dbb5775ddab55c2b0d4059b4a32c

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0208131 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0208131v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0208131 · pith_short_12: XZ5BOEU365VC · pith_short_16: XZ5BOEU365VCAD65 · pith_short_8: XZ5BOEU3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XZ5BOEU365VCAD65XKWNNW5TSD \
  | 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: be7a17129bf76a200fddbaacd6dbb390c5a7dbb5775ddab55c2b0d4059b4a32c

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "547691c5e4c58becd199e60a25da6d1e8df61fa73d3ba017d2fa7cd00dc75884",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-21T10:24:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ba3f9dba5ab763d294facb9290c9182639e5ac3f1dc81086c798b2e7db93236"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0208131",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}