Pith Number

pith:BEIOUQZV

pith:2003:BEIOUQZVVQRNM442LKL3TVOYGA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photon-number superselection and the entangled coherent-state representation

Barry C. Sanders, Peter L. Knight, Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph

arxiv:quant-ph/0306076 v2 · 2003-06-11 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BEIOUQZVVQRNM442LKL3TVOYGA}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T14:46:19.854743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0910ea4335ac22d6739a5a97b9d5d8300a269819c483139887b4b6b35cc9408c

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0306076 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0306076v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0306076 · pith_short_12: BEIOUQZVVQRN · pith_short_16: BEIOUQZVVQRNM442 · pith_short_8: BEIOUQZV

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/BEIOUQZVVQRNM442LKL3TVOYGA \
  | 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: 0910ea4335ac22d6739a5a97b9d5d8300a269819c483139887b4b6b35cc9408c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78d063007f3781db5f04b5718b9104ac0a52a80ab8a4200ced0eea1b610e4111",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-06-11T02:00:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aaec5e71318e5993afc8adc36d133aeaf199591fc4e2e0c11b7e0e2045282004"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0306076",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}