Pith Number

pith:MDM4JSBZ

pith:2013:MDM4JSBZKWBBEFOOSUAQLICSMY

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Damping law of photocount distribution in a dissipative channel

Hong-yi Fan, Li-yun Hu, Sen-yue Lou

arxiv:1303.4802 v1 · 2013-03-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDM4JSBZKWBBEFOOSUAQLICSMY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:51:00.480027Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60d9c4c83955821215ce950105a0526633958f2165511d12772070edbc95d95e

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.4802 · arxiv_version: 1303.4802v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.4802 · pith_short_12: MDM4JSBZKWBB · pith_short_16: MDM4JSBZKWBBEFOO · pith_short_8: MDM4JSBZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MDM4JSBZKWBBEFOOSUAQLICSMY \
  | 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: 60d9c4c83955821215ce950105a0526633958f2165511d12772070edbc95d95e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9a8eb8f3f07e02ccbb005c539a690c7fbe2b486d0a9fee75e51ce26822ea13d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-20T01:03:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ad450a028f8c4b65abebfd36fd5852c3aca468a4d1f1794435730193deeb161"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.4802",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}