Pith Number

pith:HMUBJS7K

pith:2012:HMUBJS7K6NAVCP3BQMNVVJNUB7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time-bin entangled photon holes

J.D. Franson, J. Liang, T.B. Pittman

arxiv:1208.4776 v1 · 2012-08-23 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HMUBJS7K6NAVCP3BQMNVVJNUB7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:54:59.027698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b2814cbeaf341513f61831b5aa5b40fc67746e6d38d06c32af475b0bf66e581

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4776 · arxiv_version: 1208.4776v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4776 · pith_short_12: HMUBJS7K6NAV · pith_short_16: HMUBJS7K6NAVCP3B · pith_short_8: HMUBJS7K

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/HMUBJS7K6NAVCP3BQMNVVJNUB7 \
  | 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: 3b2814cbeaf341513f61831b5aa5b40fc67746e6d38d06c32af475b0bf66e581

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4593dec6dee5fa80e86cee0c2530af43dc75fe50d5be1501790800faf1f20a26",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-23T14:55:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fb674859f02a2a6ace1a7f5c35b73ab6ce0e44baffae62f9e5b512bc0e574e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4776",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}