Pith Number

pith:VQ3O6LNJ

pith:2011:VQ3O6LNJZISKFU6M5WWVC6AVZQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimental tomography of NOON states with large photon numbers

Itai Afek, Oron Ambar, Shamir Rosen, Yaron Silberberg, Yonatan Israel

arxiv:1112.4371 v2 · 2011-12-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQ3O6LNJZISKFU6M5WWVC6AVZQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:39.127370Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac36ef2da9ca24a2d3ccedad517815cc0b4d970234663621263dbad30416efee

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.4371 · arxiv_version: 1112.4371v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.4371 · pith_short_12: VQ3O6LNJZISK · pith_short_16: VQ3O6LNJZISKFU6M · pith_short_8: VQ3O6LNJ

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/VQ3O6LNJZISKFU6M5WWVC6AVZQ \
  | 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: ac36ef2da9ca24a2d3ccedad517815cc0b4d970234663621263dbad30416efee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0814c1980d869efaaaadda31f7484e51bc559066659377a6bd6e3518eb0d7525",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-19T15:35:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd9f2f9541864e580d62fdb4c34f5d3edaf3180d904ab10e53295f580c93ac2c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.4371",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}