Pith Number

pith:GNKWCV5C

pith:2014:GNKWCV5CIZE5ACGRTEDNCYKDQS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Complete temporal characterization of a single photon

Adarsh S. Prasad, A. I. Lvovsky, A. Lezama, Andrew MacRae, Travis Brannan, Zhongzhong Qin

arxiv:1405.6251 v4 · 2014-05-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GNKWCV5CIZE5ACGRTEDNCYKDQS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:53.444346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33556157a24649d008d19906d1614384bc44ae24e80e69f916e6f8ac476e4d6f

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.6251 · arxiv_version: 1405.6251v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.6251 · pith_short_12: GNKWCV5CIZE5 · pith_short_16: GNKWCV5CIZE5ACGR · pith_short_8: GNKWCV5C

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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/GNKWCV5CIZE5ACGRTEDNCYKDQS \
  | 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: 33556157a24649d008d19906d1614384bc44ae24e80e69f916e6f8ac476e4d6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f4cfe2f612a99666aafb90891b007f0af3e27f486e4bc984abc0caf35882b35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-24T00:50:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51431f135afc3bd683d0f7dea5aa8247a51e43c06051c02df3228258e1dd34af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.6251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}