Pith Number

pith:AQ4HMN3N

pith:1997:AQ4HMN3NEWVCRHPRKVZLUU6KW6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Phase preparation by atom counting of Bose-Einstein condensates in mixed states

D. F. Walls, M. J. Collett, R. Graham, S. M. Tan, T. Wong

arxiv:quant-ph/9704036 v1 · 1997-04-18 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AQ4HMN3NEWVCRHPRKVZLUU6KW6}

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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	2026-07-04T16:06:29.102508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

043876376d25aa289df15572ba53cab79d8f9ac1b0d042a9748ae7e845d30a5b

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9704036 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9704036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9704036 · pith_short_12: AQ4HMN3NEWVC · pith_short_16: AQ4HMN3NEWVCRHPR · pith_short_8: AQ4HMN3N

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/AQ4HMN3NEWVCRHPRKVZLUU6KW6 \
  | 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: 043876376d25aa289df15572ba53cab79d8f9ac1b0d042a9748ae7e845d30a5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e4c24616a5c8c137c3c655f64eb87fb3f2db0bfe638f0f99bbf4bafea526a93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-18T00:02:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8a288dab5fb4724c1f8b0733b53eec149989ae855bd4defc5ef9cf6078ce4ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9704036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}