Pith Number

pith:DSDJFEIS

pith:2002:DSDJFEIS6QB7JGX23WR5YJUHA4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Storage of light: A useful concept?

Gaithersburg, GA) L. Deng (Electron, MD), M.G. Payne (Georgia Southern University, NIST, Optical Physics Division, Statesboro

arxiv:quant-ph/0203075 v2 · 2002-03-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DSDJFEIS6QB7JGX23WR5YJUHA4}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:02.034281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1c86929112f403f49afadda3dc26870702e02fcd7ffd24527ccee2d208af1add

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0203075 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0203075v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0203075 · pith_short_12: DSDJFEIS6QB7 · pith_short_16: DSDJFEIS6QB7JGX2 · pith_short_8: DSDJFEIS

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/DSDJFEIS6QB7JGX23WR5YJUHA4 \
  | 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: 1c86929112f403f49afadda3dc26870702e02fcd7ffd24527ccee2d208af1add

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78a358d47bed1e886ed33ec25aa2e435756d7af58af81955f978637a86a83ff0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-03-15T20:21:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0dc9e30e083686d4816fac9b413d0a3515f17153fce835eeb6fd0666375d50d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0203075",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}