Pith Number

pith:C3SGYIXL

pith:2020:C3SGYIXLD6U5EF2O4YSP5JPM5E

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Measuring the time atoms spend in the excited state due to a photon they don't absorb

Aephraim M. Steinberg, Aharon Brodutch, Daniela Angulo, Josiah Sinclair, Kent Bonsma-Fisher, Kyle Thompson

arxiv:2010.02200 v1 · 2020-10-05 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{C3SGYIXLD6U5EF2O4YSP5JPM5E}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:40:18.404809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16e46c22eb1fa9d2174ee624fea5ece9379e71e351ad69bebb252599c6b310e7

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.02200 · arxiv_version: 2010.02200v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.02200 · pith_short_12: C3SGYIXLD6U5 · pith_short_16: C3SGYIXLD6U5EF2O · pith_short_8: C3SGYIXL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C3SGYIXLD6U5EF2O4YSP5JPM5E \
  | 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: 16e46c22eb1fa9d2174ee624fea5ece9379e71e351ad69bebb252599c6b310e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "efd376c54d3b49ac0bdd2ea85f29e5920c07af2afe038fdb46f37416805d254e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-05T17:59:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71f4cac4b329250d9be53ae51b601a43921697d2293a481e40edddf78bcd8b44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.02200",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}