Pith Number

pith:Y4U6N7JW

pith:2022:Y4U6N7JWFSE4CSLBQHTU2LM24I

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Assessing the quality of near-term photonic quantum devices

Rawad Mezher, Shane Mansfield

arxiv:2202.04735 v1 · 2022-02-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y4U6N7JWFSE4CSLBQHTU2LM24I}

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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	2026-07-05T03:55:53.387410Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c729e6fd362c89c1496181e74d2d9ae2263930f20f80a4cf7266361a539ce896

Aliases

arxiv: 2202.04735 · arxiv_version: 2202.04735v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.04735 · pith_short_12: Y4U6N7JWFSE4 · pith_short_16: Y4U6N7JWFSE4CSLB · pith_short_8: Y4U6N7JW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y4U6N7JWFSE4CSLBQHTU2LM24I \
  | 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: c729e6fd362c89c1496181e74d2d9ae2263930f20f80a4cf7266361a539ce896

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fdad9551d882c7d658e0449a7f5bfa3604dd7a064488f6e17455fde008b56ad0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-02-09T21:32:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac298c23e2fc72654f4ac4e8dd6ec15a9cfa20bd0e718fb18b8bc0973c40960b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2202.04735",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}