Pith Number

pith:2YTGFFY4

pith:2010:2YTGFFY4L7CFMKVLUO7WJJBJEP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient photon number detection with silicon avalanche photodiodes

A. J. Shields, A. W. Sharpe, J. F. Dynes, O. Thomas, Z. L. Yuan

arxiv:1007.3570 v1 · 2010-07-21 · quant-ph · cond-mat.mtrl-sci · physics.ins-det

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2YTGFFY4L7CFMKVLUO7WJJBJEP}

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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	2026-05-18T02:33:08.958883Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d62662971c5fc4562aaba3bf64a42923f26b2d1c8d4bf0f68fadde0bc2e8a1f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.3570 · arxiv_version: 1007.3570v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.3570 · pith_short_12: 2YTGFFY4L7CF · pith_short_16: 2YTGFFY4L7CFMKVL · pith_short_8: 2YTGFFY4

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/2YTGFFY4L7CFMKVLUO7WJJBJEP \
  | 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: d62662971c5fc4562aaba3bf64a42923f26b2d1c8d4bf0f68fadde0bc2e8a1f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b334c0f39d3fc257fab968efc25d16aedb2c2e17bd051d53b00f7f1cf548b6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
      "physics.ins-det"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-21T07:14:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74eb320a6ca4da1eaf33a7292c01d9cb775762e9d94e594c7c2021a120f7ca7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.3570",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}