Pith Number

pith:HFQU7RKI

pith:2016:HFQU7RKIAC2R5RDI4HRNYEH5QZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Field-quadrature and photon-number variances for Gaussian states

Moorad Alexanian

arxiv:1610.08821 v1 · 2016-10-27 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HFQU7RKIAC2R5RDI4HRNYEH5QZ}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:01:07.176680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39614fc54800b51ec468e1e2dc10fd866cf7ef581108ae2de9075df58ca98ac6

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.08821 · arxiv_version: 1610.08821v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.08821 · pith_short_12: HFQU7RKIAC2R · pith_short_16: HFQU7RKIAC2R5RDI · pith_short_8: HFQU7RKI

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/HFQU7RKIAC2R5RDI4HRNYEH5QZ \
  | 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: 39614fc54800b51ec468e1e2dc10fd866cf7ef581108ae2de9075df58ca98ac6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f82958712f7340ee85b72b79d709102a90779579e853cf0646b728719f5d92c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-27T14:59:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba06fec1531fcdd09e12dc7d59f18e11e4ce73ff9dbb53932160824316485e75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.08821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}