Pith Number

pith:PZM4KMET

pith:2009:PZM4KMETGMA4CN4FYS5IY6D2UH

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Signal acquisition via polarization modulation in single photon sources

Adrian P. Flitney, Mark D. McDonnell

arxiv:0911.3668 v2 · 2009-11-18 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PZM4KMETGMA4CN4FYS5IY6D2UH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:04.416097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e59c530933301c13785c4ba8c787aa1e4fe22f4188c1a366df6c38d1bab0743

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.3668 · arxiv_version: 0911.3668v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.3668 · pith_short_12: PZM4KMETGMA4 · pith_short_16: PZM4KMETGMA4CN4F · pith_short_8: PZM4KMET

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PZM4KMETGMA4CN4FYS5IY6D2UH \
  | 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: 7e59c530933301c13785c4ba8c787aa1e4fe22f4188c1a366df6c38d1bab0743

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7ddbbc42fcbdaec8511ce1e96115451aa2e780994857c6e53a770430b2622d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-18T22:05:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5260d0692d0402ae0eaeab1ae57477b37b4af7b84941d9cbf7b61bfaa390ae40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0911.3668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}