Pith Number

pith:5WT4VPWO

pith:2001:5WT4VPWOYWWETAKW2AOKL3T6NP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On a linear optical implementation of non local product states and on their indistinguishability

Angelo Carollo, Anton Zeilinger, Christoph Simon, G.Massimo Palma

arxiv:quant-ph/0102124 v2 · 2001-02-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5WT4VPWOYWWETAKW2AOKL3T6NP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:05.035550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eda7cabecec5ac498156d01ca5ee7e6beedee81ff40f9e42cfcfde7a516e7cbf

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0102124 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0102124v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0102124 · pith_short_12: 5WT4VPWOYWWE · pith_short_16: 5WT4VPWOYWWETAKW · pith_short_8: 5WT4VPWO

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/5WT4VPWOYWWETAKW2AOKL3T6NP \
  | 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: eda7cabecec5ac498156d01ca5ee7e6beedee81ff40f9e42cfcfde7a516e7cbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c54098d474e8fc9931d211a4d030a7f05956f66ee89fd2a34e45c67bb9fbf954",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-02-23T16:40:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d29423be874a4da066ae5afccbbb79d8bd465cb8c9d2936f2d0a22848ff1689b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0102124",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}