Pith Number

pith:5TP5ZXIL

pith:2017:5TP5ZXIL2HGRVRIKGXZECYCFQ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A topological source of quantum light

Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Mohammad Hafezi, Sunil Mittal

arxiv:1709.09984 v2 · 2017-09-28 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5TP5ZXIL2HGRVRIKGXZECYCFQ3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:50:42.915337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ecdfdcdd0bd1cd1ac50a35f241604586cb65aa4c784f24ec65fb97fcb777b72c

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09984 · arxiv_version: 1709.09984v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09984 · pith_short_12: 5TP5ZXIL2HGR · pith_short_16: 5TP5ZXIL2HGRVRIK · pith_short_8: 5TP5ZXIL

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/5TP5ZXIL2HGRVRIKGXZECYCFQ3 \
  | 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: ecdfdcdd0bd1cd1ac50a35f241604586cb65aa4c784f24ec65fb97fcb777b72c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9d51618d7a21db8f52ccd286e688864ae6bc31c92f07f97d9f9c16569f83a8e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-28T14:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6736dfea1302c81601a70a920a922da5d1787631f8c1cb463a0065c5412503e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}