Pith Number

pith:3VFPQJY2

pith:2000:3VFPQJY2VW23FYLQS4KLFWTHO2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Implementation of a quantum phase gate by the optical Kerr effect

C. E. Tanner, J. M. LoSecco, S. Glancy

arxiv:quant-ph/0009110 v1 · 2000-09-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VFPQJY2VW23FYLQS4KLFWTHO2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:45:31.968811Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd4af8271aadb5b2e1709714b2da6776b802ffcea6884a660d6a91af99b5142b

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0009110 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0009110v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0009110 · pith_short_12: 3VFPQJY2VW23 · pith_short_16: 3VFPQJY2VW23FYLQ · pith_short_8: 3VFPQJY2

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/3VFPQJY2VW23FYLQS4KLFWTHO2 \
  | 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: dd4af8271aadb5b2e1709714b2da6776b802ffcea6884a660d6a91af99b5142b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a895c3f032cff3f94891d6d8adf81a8fd4a671428c9139262c02d164ea9294aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-09-26T23:43:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "609e6cf78cfe1c7c2de7b6d252d286be7aefbc0db6910ff4c45fba3aee0d6dfa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0009110",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}