Pith Number

pith:2W5BOHAQ

pith:2020:2W5BOHAQV2ADHXULXWROLYZ2FJ

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Artificial coherent states of light by multi-photon interference in a single-photon stream

A. C. Gossard, D. Bouwmeester, E. Hissink, G. Westra, H. Snijders, J. A. Frey, J. E. Bowers, J. Norman, K. Iakovlev, P. Steindl, S. Polla, W. L\"offler

arxiv:2010.15471 v2 · 2020-10-29 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{2W5BOHAQV2ADHXULXWROLYZ2FJ}

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:31:01.055411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5ba171c10ae8033de8bbda2e5e33a2a64da54f33635f92269c07a8f91d6f308

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.15471 · arxiv_version: 2010.15471v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.15471 · pith_short_12: 2W5BOHAQV2AD · pith_short_16: 2W5BOHAQV2ADHXUL · pith_short_8: 2W5BOHAQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2W5BOHAQV2ADHXULXWROLYZ2FJ \
  | 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: d5ba171c10ae8033de8bbda2e5e33a2a64da54f33635f92269c07a8f91d6f308

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d70cca610897ad1e2bcfa357c9c54254e2de48638116f3765b99afde75fb3cbc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-29T10:40:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00386203f0d443ff23fbfa84d3465ea26497467b7bdf6e50d6d5e25ec6105ef2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.15471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}