Pith Number

pith:3KVCPDBU

pith:2016:3KVCPDBUC3BKHXSDCGY7CAKZI5

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Experimental creation of superposition of unknown photonic quantum states

Bi-Heng Liu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Jiang-Shan Chen, Meng-Jun Hu, Xiao-Min Hu, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Yun-Feng Huang

arxiv:1605.02339 v3 · 2016-05-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3KVCPDBUC3BKHXSDCGY7CAKZI5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:49.848719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

daaa278c3416c2a3de4311b1f101594770acc4f5c896a73c2f1405fc104d2b62

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.02339 · arxiv_version: 1605.02339v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.02339 · pith_short_12: 3KVCPDBUC3BK · pith_short_16: 3KVCPDBUC3BKHXSD · pith_short_8: 3KVCPDBU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3KVCPDBUC3BKHXSDCGY7CAKZI5 \
  | 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: daaa278c3416c2a3de4311b1f101594770acc4f5c896a73c2f1405fc104d2b62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5434da9ac61a632e8a6c9dcf0385c21a62f501fd992830115c80833449ce131",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-08T17:25:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9265cbefdc53f8410c2c6029d2c857ff0af56ed954e5bb21e53288f053869c6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.02339",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}