Pith Number

pith:ECSNRN5D

pith:2018:ECSNRN5DMILHQ2OZ7JJTZLSICX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light, the universe, and everything -- 12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers

Alan Willner, Alexei Sokolov, Anatoly Svidzinsky, David Lee, Dean Hawthorne, Eli Yablonovich, Ernst Rasel, Frank Wilczek, Gavriil Shchedrin, Gennady Shvets, Girish Agarwal, Goong Chen, Harald Losert, Helmut Maier, Iva Bezdekova, John Neuberger, Mark Raizen, Marlan Scully, Miles Padgett, Moochan Kim, Nikolay Zheludev, Olga Kocharovskaya, Philip Hemmer, Rainer Weiss, Robert Boyd, Roland Allen, Ronald Hanson, Ronald Walsworth, Sebastian Lidstrom, Surjeet Rajendran, Suzy Lidstrom, Wolfgang Schleich

arxiv:1802.06110 v1 · 2018-02-16 · quant-ph · cond-mat.other · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ECSNRN5DMILHQ2OZ7JJTZLSICX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:15:16.054233Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20a4d8b7a362167869d9fa533cae4815c24dcffc94279ff807b2b7f4b43469ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.06110 · arxiv_version: 1802.06110v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.06110 · pith_short_12: ECSNRN5DMILH · pith_short_16: ECSNRN5DMILHQ2OZ · pith_short_8: ECSNRN5D

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/ECSNRN5DMILHQ2OZ7JJTZLSICX \
  | 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: 20a4d8b7a362167869d9fa533cae4815c24dcffc94279ff807b2b7f4b43469ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c81e36f441df3aca65a8dac05b905043ee548146ba344d65b2a1d7f2c8e4af3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.other",
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-16T20:23:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1964a5c38539e907a2b502778de01b5d6498388c24b7ccec2c015ec5e4a83df2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.06110",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}