Pith Number

pith:4CTX7AWM

pith:2017:4CTX7AWMUTBJH7ZMWUF36XAFFC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Quantum Optics to Quantum Technologies

Dan Browne, Florian Mintert, M. S. Kim, Sougato Bose

arxiv:1707.02925 v1 · 2017-07-10 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4CTX7AWMUTBJH7ZMWUF36XAFFC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:40:35.431349Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0a77f82cca4c293ff2cb50bbf5c05288e301e722bd12336d351e924c076cda5

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.02925 · arxiv_version: 1707.02925v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.02925 · pith_short_12: 4CTX7AWMUTBJ · pith_short_16: 4CTX7AWMUTBJH7ZM · pith_short_8: 4CTX7AWM

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/4CTX7AWMUTBJH7ZMWUF36XAFFC \
  | 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: e0a77f82cca4c293ff2cb50bbf5c05288e301e722bd12336d351e924c076cda5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52b5ff6853447dd6de9caddd6049c07157997dd8a7a8e23a464e94c346e45a33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-10T16:12:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d216da877892d71b92f910249a7f9f04151fb25c659bf7bb8385a155f9a33807"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.02925",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}