Pith Number

pith:4X2EOG3Q

pith:2014:4X2EOG3QKIIHPFSKSKW6MVBESG

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The second-order interference of two independent single-mode He-Ne lasers

Bin Bai, Fu-li Li, Hui Chen, Jianbin Liu, Minglan Le, Wentao Wang, Yu Zhou, Zhuo Xu

arxiv:1410.1993 v1 · 2014-10-08 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:17:42.882242Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5f4471b70521077964a92ade6542491859638c286dcc4714c9d5be50d49d5e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.1993 · arxiv_version: 1410.1993v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.1993 · pith_short_12: 4X2EOG3QKIIH · pith_short_16: 4X2EOG3QKIIHPFSK · pith_short_8: 4X2EOG3Q

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4X2EOG3QKIIHPFSKSKW6MVBESG \
  | 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: e5f4471b70521077964a92ade6542491859638c286dcc4714c9d5be50d49d5e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72360e90def34cc0cfb54a10a8f0c26e65786952bf5da67907b360104765b8a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-08T06:39:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "180278fbb4b05967effaf79b421ea686f1fef4a76782a3ae6dc51824c236c1ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.1993",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}