Pith Number

pith:EACNSRDZ

pith:2012:EACNSRDZ2Q7R6XSXREHISLYZJH

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Full characterisation of polarisation states of light via direct measurement

Allan S. Johnson, Eliot Bolduc, Jeff Z. Salvail, Jonathan Leach, Megan Agnew, Robert W. Boyd

arxiv:1206.2618 v3 · 2012-06-12 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{EACNSRDZ2Q7R6XSXREHISLYZJH}

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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	2026-05-18T03:08:25.183922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2004d94479d43f1f5e57890e892f1949d3b34a4149134a617070c73983f01ebd

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.2618 · arxiv_version: 1206.2618v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.2618 · pith_short_12: EACNSRDZ2Q7R · pith_short_16: EACNSRDZ2Q7R6XSX · pith_short_8: EACNSRDZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EACNSRDZ2Q7R6XSXREHISLYZJH \
  | 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: 2004d94479d43f1f5e57890e892f1949d3b34a4149134a617070c73983f01ebd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddd920f38226df2807c6c04b64f5276feb34c72e0d4b5ae6ebd0146554e1194a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-12T18:57:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c5a4915fc594831020ffdc8ab28c9b880fa799fe68f763e0b96be6186b06f0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.2618",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}