Pith Number

pith:BPCD77K6

pith:2016:BPCD77K6RKLMRQIE4IHYYYII47

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sub-shot-noise transmission measurement using optically gated single photons

A. McMillan, H. V. Cable, J. C. F. Matthews, J. G. Rarity, J. L. O'Brien, J. Sabines-Chesterking, P. A. Moreau, P. M. Birchall, R. Whittaker, S. K. Joshi

arxiv:1611.07870 v1 · 2016-11-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BPCD77K6RKLMRQIE4IHYYYII47}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:39.637647Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0bc43ffd5e8a96c8c104e20f8c6108e7e43077614838f0da907292a49b95c09b

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.07870 · arxiv_version: 1611.07870v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.07870 · pith_short_12: BPCD77K6RKLM · pith_short_16: BPCD77K6RKLMRQIE · pith_short_8: BPCD77K6

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/BPCD77K6RKLMRQIE4IHYYYII47 \
  | 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: 0bc43ffd5e8a96c8c104e20f8c6108e7e43077614838f0da907292a49b95c09b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b2e6157ba75152a58357dddc36b6807f78111f1d63bc477f2b9db8965bd6ccc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-23T16:36:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5adf335e88e29e05c8a0baaa544dad3c59e37676580f2bb52742e8d27ca73c05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.07870",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}