Pith Number

pith:2SLDOFBX

pith:2009:2SLDOFBXY7DE7P5V7RBVWHFHIK

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Impossibility of large phase shifts via the "giant Kerr effect" with single-photon wavepackets

Julio Gea-Banacloche

arxiv:0911.4682 v1 · 2009-11-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2SLDOFBXY7DE7P5V7RBVWHFHIK}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:23:56.721209Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d496371437c7c64fbfb5fc435b1ca7429b0c2f0f5e37aba847e6606709bade00

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.4682 · arxiv_version: 0911.4682v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.4682 · pith_short_12: 2SLDOFBXY7DE · pith_short_16: 2SLDOFBXY7DE7P5V · pith_short_8: 2SLDOFBX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2SLDOFBXY7DE7P5V7RBVWHFHIK \
  | 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: d496371437c7c64fbfb5fc435b1ca7429b0c2f0f5e37aba847e6606709bade00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9285c53ce0d372105e4847e970c81378e2bccf5e114e148438e329382d0530d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-24T17:32:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04279cbc25fbe503acdfaba0db8305a1847d0282a8ace8e339e598555bfde1ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0911.4682",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}