Pith Number

pith:5DJZYZGC

pith:2013:5DJZYZGC3XB6O2JPNFMZXPQQZR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measurement- and comparison-based sizes of Schr\"{o}dinger cat states of light

K.B. Whaley, T.J. Volkoff

arxiv:1310.6053 v1 · 2013-10-22 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5DJZYZGC3XB6O2JPNFMZXPQQZR}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T03:00:58.365930Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8d39c64c2ddc3e7692f69599bbe10cc5f11b564fea095e8c7dbcae07a0623be

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.6053 · arxiv_version: 1310.6053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.6053 · pith_short_12: 5DJZYZGC3XB6 · pith_short_16: 5DJZYZGC3XB6O2JP · pith_short_8: 5DJZYZGC

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/5DJZYZGC3XB6O2JPNFMZXPQQZR \
  | 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: e8d39c64c2ddc3e7692f69599bbe10cc5f11b564fea095e8c7dbcae07a0623be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0fd25d27d4fc880da05510747cd0759decb0cea9aeb4a429ecae62da5804e0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-22T20:35:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be97c37ca9fa26c329e045bd0334229dd91f9b2088b5c7d12dc1e444506976d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.6053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}