Pith Number

pith:DWXZQ7K3

pith:2012:DWXZQ7K3U6XZUL7U342PZOD2BV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multi-photon state engineering by heralded interference between single photons and coherent states

Animesh Datta, Brian J. Smith, Gaia Donati, Ian A. Walmsley, Justin B. Spring, Marco Barbieri, Tim J. Bartley, Xian-Min Jin

arxiv:1205.0497 v2 · 2012-05-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DWXZQ7K3U6XZUL7U342PZOD2BV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:41:43.951804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1daf987d5ba7af9a2ff4df34fcb87a0d7bdae889ebff961dcab1f63148447ed5

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0497 · arxiv_version: 1205.0497v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0497 · pith_short_12: DWXZQ7K3U6XZ · pith_short_16: DWXZQ7K3U6XZUL7U · pith_short_8: DWXZQ7K3

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/DWXZQ7K3U6XZUL7U342PZOD2BV \
  | 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: 1daf987d5ba7af9a2ff4df34fcb87a0d7bdae889ebff961dcab1f63148447ed5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "261c4d03f498ddb35902f9937aa8904b8ad0e9cd65c256aa5744b45672606fb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-02T17:28:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5229c972310cbdbb3d1bd0b5f10a1067639ceebb2ed058370c69c54b84f52fda"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}