Pith Number

pith:ESOP4M4U

pith:2014:ESOP4M4U7HMS7DICIPXQF6JEQB

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Single photons in an imperfect array of beam-splitters: Interplay between percolation, backscattering and transient localization

C. M. Chandrashekar, S. Melville, Th. Busch

arxiv:1401.1600 v3 · 2014-01-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ESOP4M4U7HMS7DICIPXQF6JEQB}

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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	2026-05-18T02:55:05.577196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

249cfe3394f9d92f8d0243ef02f924807d9de321fdb1b27a4e1a148ddf81660e

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.1600 · arxiv_version: 1401.1600v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.1600 · pith_short_12: ESOP4M4U7HMS · pith_short_16: ESOP4M4U7HMS7DIC · pith_short_8: ESOP4M4U

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ESOP4M4U7HMS7DICIPXQF6JEQB \
  | 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: 249cfe3394f9d92f8d0243ef02f924807d9de321fdb1b27a4e1a148ddf81660e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c963f1b3b25cfb471bbb095f8c38657bed765daa0a63ac8f24f43dbe779b8498",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-08T08:21:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31d4a59c0cab51bcfec73e3a947d4eb4c1c6dcd6bac4a0940355129b8eaf3ff3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.1600",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}