Pith Number

pith:KNJBJHXR

pith:2017:KNJBJHXRQPCOSN4IREKWPCUZH7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Taking tomographic measurements for photonic qubits 88 ns before they are created

Anthony Laing, Chao Zhang, Chuan-Feng Li, Geoff J. Pryde, Guang-Can Guo, Guo-Yong Xiang, Han-Sen Zhong, Qi Yin, Zhibo Hou

arxiv:1705.10878 v1 · 2017-05-30 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{KNJBJHXRQPCOSN4IREKWPCUZH7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:20.018952Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5352149ef183c4e937888915678a993fed49130a571ec066d2b473c666a091ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10878 · arxiv_version: 1705.10878v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10878 · pith_short_12: KNJBJHXRQPCO · pith_short_16: KNJBJHXRQPCOSN4I · pith_short_8: KNJBJHXR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KNJBJHXRQPCOSN4IREKWPCUZH7 \
  | 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: 5352149ef183c4e937888915678a993fed49130a571ec066d2b473c666a091ec

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fee678f09fcda40901af758d8a88a319fa25358e4927d1b18dbf3b61833327c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-30T22:00:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75bb7fbbcfa3604eee153c07af72dc7a6b619c6e2d18c6bfc2b79dff988c76b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}