Pith Number

pith:QLNON5GB

pith:2014:QLNON5GBETOX5PO5BK2EH6KWSB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Connection between the N00N State and a superposition of SU(2) Coherent States

Barry C. Sanders, Christopher C. Gerry

arxiv:1405.5026 v4 · 2014-05-20 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QLNON5GBETOX5PO5BK2EH6KWSB}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:38:44.108854Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82dae6f4c124dd7ebddd0ab443f95690586c731fceaa6b43c45e80cd06350bdd

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.5026 · arxiv_version: 1405.5026v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.5026 · pith_short_12: QLNON5GBETOX · pith_short_16: QLNON5GBETOX5PO5 · pith_short_8: QLNON5GB

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/QLNON5GBETOX5PO5BK2EH6KWSB \
  | 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: 82dae6f4c124dd7ebddd0ab443f95690586c731fceaa6b43c45e80cd06350bdd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83f3a2021a26b6934380e590c7a290ad895d1b8843bccd34dd7e0561d15a59e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-20T10:45:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9397baa4f12119ae186e9d6095a69ca4db63c70e9fa4d816e7582dc878635ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.5026",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}