Pith Number

pith:3LSIYRX6

pith:2011:3LSIYRX6DOVPR2UFWV4VWH5HDE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can a polarization scrambler really depolarize light?

Guilherme P. Tempor\~ao, Jean Pierre von der Weid

arxiv:1109.1016 v1 · 2011-09-05 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3LSIYRX6DOVPR2UFWV4VWH5HDE}

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:05.595203Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dae48c46fe1baaf8ea85b5795b1fa719388cd35ce77c6feccc9e499e332c0615

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.1016 · arxiv_version: 1109.1016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.1016 · pith_short_12: 3LSIYRX6DOVP · pith_short_16: 3LSIYRX6DOVPR2UF · pith_short_8: 3LSIYRX6

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/3LSIYRX6DOVPR2UFWV4VWH5HDE \
  | 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: dae48c46fe1baaf8ea85b5795b1fa719388cd35ce77c6feccc9e499e332c0615

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6f910f602be85661814fd90e669dd5b7397682b6c91f51fc3319921c54284ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-05T21:44:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "627a723f2a0c46343bf3c84075f2a14ba5f49969cf39350e270bf0f9c82b59fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.1016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}