Pith Number

pith:3O4P5MJM

pith:2017:3O4P5MJMBLE2FOLO5DBIZAJGTU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Heralded generation of high-purity ultrashort single photons in programmable temporal shapes

Christine Silberhorn, Christof Eigner, Emanuele Roccia, Ilaria Gianani, John M. Donohue, Laura Padberg, Luca Mancino, Mahnaz Doostdar, Marco Barbieri, Marco Sbroscia, Matteo Santandrea, Vahid Ansari

arxiv:1711.09678 v2 · 2017-11-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3O4P5MJMBLE2FOLO5DBIZAJGTU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:59.363933Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbb8feb12c0ac9a2b96ee8c28c81269d2514ac356de0d089761e306e5c05d3e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09678 · arxiv_version: 1711.09678v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09678 · pith_short_12: 3O4P5MJMBLE2 · pith_short_16: 3O4P5MJMBLE2FOLO · pith_short_8: 3O4P5MJM

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/3O4P5MJMBLE2FOLO5DBIZAJGTU \
  | 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: dbb8feb12c0ac9a2b96ee8c28c81269d2514ac356de0d089761e306e5c05d3e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "940813201b229420aaf14854f5704165acce3318c667e5147b70ab5af1f90da4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-27T13:30:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b51709a6e03f48e612d658ac0c7d07ff3b1a3def1d751aa827cef4bf85347d56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09678",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}