Pith Number

pith:2VLNR3TF

pith:2008:2VLNR3TFYQJFFU4KKCQCNWSR52

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Entangled light from Bose-Einstein condensates

H. T. Ng, S. Bose

arxiv:0809.5222 v1 · 2008-09-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VLNR3TFYQJFFU4KKCQCNWSR52}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

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	2026-05-18T04:16:32.487245Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d556d8ee65c41252d38a50a026da51eebb4b422d36d7aeb67b44db997f3429bc

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.5222 · arxiv_version: 0809.5222v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.5222 · pith_short_12: 2VLNR3TFYQJF · pith_short_16: 2VLNR3TFYQJFFU4K · pith_short_8: 2VLNR3TF

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/2VLNR3TFYQJFFU4KKCQCNWSR52 \
  | 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: d556d8ee65c41252d38a50a026da51eebb4b422d36d7aeb67b44db997f3429bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1e906ea614c757ecc69b4a6fa71d3bac1edacb64ac10b1466b808bc45359501",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-30T15:13:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27d202fd19afa00600eada737ab5817109e6bc33b0e8ce4ccd52b1fc2a0eb64c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.5222",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}