Pith Number

pith:DQJDZZU6

pith:2017:DQJDZZU6YE7XGDKGFYRVMXMIWZ

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Fundamental Limits to Single-Photon Detection Determined by Quantum Coherence and Backaction

Fran\c{c}ois L\'eonard, Mohan Sarovar, Steve M. Young

arxiv:1710.09512 v1 · 2017-10-26 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DQJDZZU6YE7XGDKGFYRVMXMIWZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:06.003384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1c123ce69ec13f730d462e23565d88b674438ba836d9c3e35ca42a5d8a702a51

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09512 · arxiv_version: 1710.09512v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09512 · pith_short_12: DQJDZZU6YE7X · pith_short_16: DQJDZZU6YE7XGDKG · pith_short_8: DQJDZZU6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DQJDZZU6YE7XGDKGFYRVMXMIWZ \
  | 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: 1c123ce69ec13f730d462e23565d88b674438ba836d9c3e35ca42a5d8a702a51

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d91fad8f79906f6fa425423ef74fed9c7c23112926b36c7d1f7f81391fc85b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-26T02:01:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79bd5933523f3d9aaaa043d47e45c28359be24ae49c60653cec60bf6f2031e7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}