Pith Number

pith:RPPTFGFE

pith:2008:RPPTFGFELNP3PIQVRFETCYA62T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Memory for Light as a Quantum Process

A. I. Lvovsky, C. Kupchak, E. Figueroa, M. Lobino

arxiv:0812.4053 v1 · 2008-12-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RPPTFGFELNP3PIQVRFETCYA62T}

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5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:04.098352Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8bdf3298a45b5fb7a215894931601ed4d0233672e39113899c1064a64c211e33

Aliases

arxiv: 0812.4053 · arxiv_version: 0812.4053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0812.4053 · pith_short_12: RPPTFGFELNP3 · pith_short_16: RPPTFGFELNP3PIQV · pith_short_8: RPPTFGFE

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/RPPTFGFELNP3PIQVRFETCYA62T \
  | 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: 8bdf3298a45b5fb7a215894931601ed4d0233672e39113899c1064a64c211e33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "521467dc6e99e9c03e17f9a8bff30c26accbbae51b3fb6da4be6e1a9de5ef54e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-12-21T19:35:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b39c62763e14b8d7630264fad6b8f27effa4eed32be5c879c41c99447f77796"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0812.4053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}