Pith Number

pith:VGB3JXD6

pith:2015:VGB3JXD6K7J7GXIWEBXPXMWLGP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A number-state filter for pulses of light

Michael Fleischhauer, Nikolai Lauk

arxiv:1512.08213 v2 · 2015-12-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGB3JXD6K7J7GXIWEBXPXMWLGP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:30.248287Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a983b4dc7e57d3f35d16206efbb2cb33fd349beb4d82a9b936624ac5203b2103

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.08213 · arxiv_version: 1512.08213v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.08213 · pith_short_12: VGB3JXD6K7J7 · pith_short_16: VGB3JXD6K7J7GXIW · pith_short_8: VGB3JXD6

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/VGB3JXD6K7J7GXIWEBXPXMWLGP \
  | 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: a983b4dc7e57d3f35d16206efbb2cb33fd349beb4d82a9b936624ac5203b2103

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f8ee4f8700b047578ba6c3803cce8825d89e9aed7c179f7de1c2b4c908467bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-27T12:46:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "060d4e574b619eca8d427bbdb14489275fe57c2648b3282d3682cf5df2f22a35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.08213",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}