Pith Number

pith:FFNC3KGU

pith:2016:FFNC3KGU4ZHA3S3KCIOYJH7GEV

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Distinguishing Coherent States from Phase-Mixed Coherent States with Only a Variable Beam Splitter and Single-Photon Detector, In Principle

Samuel R. Hedemann

arxiv:1603.06274 v1 · 2016-03-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FFNC3KGU4ZHA3S3KCIOYJH7GEV}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:49.882626Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

295a2da8d4e64e0dcb6a121d849fe625516d3d4be2a1ed9a68d0d7c0f5ba9fc0

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.06274 · arxiv_version: 1603.06274v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06274 · pith_short_12: FFNC3KGU4ZHA · pith_short_16: FFNC3KGU4ZHA3S3K · pith_short_8: FFNC3KGU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FFNC3KGU4ZHA3S3KCIOYJH7GEV \
  | 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: 295a2da8d4e64e0dcb6a121d849fe625516d3d4be2a1ed9a68d0d7c0f5ba9fc0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6a6444a9d99a24303f3c9a2f4f3444792411617590c73f60ba772b1716efd81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-20T21:36:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3663c189b0ff4b1c14617ed4f0d645802390ebf1a26bdae53ac811a1cb9fc0a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.06274",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}