Pith Number

pith:73B273MB

pith:2003:73B273MB5EGLBLL4E2ZLI5CY5O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stopping Light All-Optically

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan

arxiv:quant-ph/0312027 v1 · 2003-12-03 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{73B273MB5EGLBLL4E2ZLI5CY5O}

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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	2026-07-04T16:43:19.017259Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fec3afed81e90cb0ad7c26b2b47458eb94d730ff12b0750d829c41982cab2e43

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0312027 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0312027v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0312027 · pith_short_12: 73B273MB5EGL · pith_short_16: 73B273MB5EGLBLL4 · pith_short_8: 73B273MB

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/73B273MB5EGLBLL4E2ZLI5CY5O \
  | 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: fec3afed81e90cb0ad7c26b2b47458eb94d730ff12b0750d829c41982cab2e43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bdc909e8c3fa2e240904865c452111dd8166c20c5a8714d44a8297d677005409",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-03T18:34:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4267b21fc6de7cc3543ac71d97575b79e911a7c9091d97bd1e03ab0e75015817"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0312027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}