Pith Number

pith:54NVT57E

pith:2017:54NVT57E34N6O5IKKNW2NW7UXF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Direct observation of phase sensitive Hong-Ou-Mandel interference

Akira Furusawa, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Kenzo Makino, Petr Marek, Petr Zapletal, Radim Filip, Takeshi Toyama, Yosuke Hashimoto

arxiv:1702.07590 v1 · 2017-02-24 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{54NVT57E34N6O5IKKNW2NW7UXF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:20.647837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef1b59f7e4df1be7750a536da6dbf4b95f9a1540d08a7016945253e4f6c0aa9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07590 · arxiv_version: 1702.07590v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07590 · pith_short_12: 54NVT57E34N6 · pith_short_16: 54NVT57E34N6O5IK · pith_short_8: 54NVT57E

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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/54NVT57E34N6O5IKKNW2NW7UXF \
  | 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: ef1b59f7e4df1be7750a536da6dbf4b95f9a1540d08a7016945253e4f6c0aa9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a867cab51150dce345729ec9fa3fa23bb56d43a73da83e552ee9b2ef7db01350",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-24T14:07:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "910826ca881a10491f38b1caafaf6469f80f086895cede2577f164f048d1ed3e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07590",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}