Pith Number

pith:G5MA3W2H

pith:2016:G5MA3W2HIRFSLCCWWNNGWBJGTV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On-chip generation of heralded photon-number states

James Downes, Michael J. Withford, M. J. Steel, Olivier Alibart, Panagiotis Vergyris, S\'ebastien Tanzilli, Thomas Meany, Tommaso Lunghi

arxiv:1605.03777 v2 · 2016-05-12 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G5MA3W2HIRFSLCCWWNNGWBJGTV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:08.509895Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37580ddb47444b258856b35a6b05269d63e968da40735fa2dbcd2ff503f42a3b

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.03777 · arxiv_version: 1605.03777v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.03777 · pith_short_12: G5MA3W2HIRFS · pith_short_16: G5MA3W2HIRFSLCCW · pith_short_8: G5MA3W2H

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/G5MA3W2HIRFSLCCWWNNGWBJGTV \
  | 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: 37580ddb47444b258856b35a6b05269d63e968da40735fa2dbcd2ff503f42a3b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4f4eb826aa16eddebf7fc87a71fde77168381a86840c68c821d80bca54218c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-12T12:18:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "503fd30ae1e6676ef709e382ebd7f4b265bc03761ce11533b4a003e12da1304e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.03777",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}