Pith Number

pith:Y42RBHM4

pith:2016:Y42RBHM452RM36YEBVSJJHLYK4

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Realizing quantum advantage without entanglement in single-photon states

A. Maldonado-Trapp, AnZi Hu, Charles W. Clark, Pablo Solano

arxiv:1604.07351 v2 · 2016-04-25 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y42RBHM452RM36YEBVSJJHLYK4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:02.864966Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c735109d9ceea2cdfb040d64949d785712cb5fa113624931132831c16a9e98f9

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.07351 · arxiv_version: 1604.07351v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.07351 · pith_short_12: Y42RBHM452RM · pith_short_16: Y42RBHM452RM36YE · pith_short_8: Y42RBHM4

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/Y42RBHM452RM36YEBVSJJHLYK4 \
  | 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: c735109d9ceea2cdfb040d64949d785712cb5fa113624931132831c16a9e98f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb5a02555af67cd2477af967172cebf385244cca462b15f7ab98088ea4bb13d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-25T18:21:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5890778a919b44523f09290bc8ac283b3fa3de1eae89c8397c7ae95af5499b33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.07351",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}