Pith Number

pith:YL5FVHSY

pith:2026:YL5FVHSYQOVDWK2AP5UNCUXYPX

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Preparing approximate $N$-fold cat states with the phase space instruction set

Andrew Lucas, Shuyan Zhou

arxiv:2608.07696 v1 · 2026-08-07 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YL5FVHSYQOVDWK2AP5UNCUXYPX}

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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	2026-08-11T00:15:43.580853Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2fa5a9e5883aa3b2b407f68d152f87dc92f90381216605a6f0bcae6e2ac44c0

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07696 · arxiv_version: 2608.07696v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07696 · pith_short_12: YL5FVHSYQOVD · pith_short_16: YL5FVHSYQOVDWK2A · pith_short_8: YL5FVHSY

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/YL5FVHSYQOVDWK2AP5UNCUXYPX \
  | 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: c2fa5a9e5883aa3b2b407f68d152f87dc92f90381216605a6f0bcae6e2ac44c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "935c4fd90d9ba92e2d56b3667790dbfafdd5b710428532b6c3d6d622f313e41e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T18:38:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c27791d4a20f5b9dfa85d4b87152e1d8d423546c048eace993f563c64d57e3d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07696",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}