Pith Number

pith:Z5YK77SB

pith:2026:Z5YK77SBGZ3BLYD26MYIBR27VF

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Rigorous no-go theorems for heralded linear-optical state generation tasks

Deepesh Singh, Jens Eisert, Luis Villegas-Aguilar, Nora Tischler, Ryan J. Marshman

arxiv:2602.09495 v1 · 2026-02-10 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-07-03T01:17:17.511019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf70affe41367615e07af33080c75fa963d19b8e37a673085d45b95c4bec2044

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.09495 · arxiv_version: 2602.09495v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.09495 · pith_short_12: Z5YK77SBGZ3B · pith_short_16: Z5YK77SBGZ3BLYD2 · pith_short_8: Z5YK77SB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z5YK77SBGZ3BLYD26MYIBR27VF \
  | 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: cf70affe41367615e07af33080c75fa963d19b8e37a673085d45b95c4bec2044

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4cd963127db66dc70e2db2e3d43037f669183f97cb8cb7b643dac0255363308",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-10T07:48:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "364c772ba90b0ff1321a174256ce7267e30d3fd391895283b6aefc43c04984cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.09495",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}