Pith Number

pith:I2RHJT4H

pith:2013:I2RHJT4HDL5FY5TYJ3ZTEFPZ4W

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Transient first-order interference of two independent thermal light beams

Jianbin Liu

arxiv:1312.5805 v1 · 2013-12-20 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I2RHJT4HDL5FY5TYJ3ZTEFPZ4W}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:54.579308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46a274cf871afa5c76784ef33215f9e5b605c340accfd484311c916b9332ff26

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.5805 · arxiv_version: 1312.5805v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.5805 · pith_short_12: I2RHJT4HDL5F · pith_short_16: I2RHJT4HDL5FY5TY · pith_short_8: I2RHJT4H

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/I2RHJT4HDL5FY5TYJ3ZTEFPZ4W \
  | 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: 46a274cf871afa5c76784ef33215f9e5b605c340accfd484311c916b9332ff26

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d43e854855f2ccf456eab4e4b0432ccf8198e7d9875e7e8a9ed2e8cde41390b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-20T03:17:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e0e308097f7ea1c16901d225ebd0502db359afb84525dd2bf3ac828393536f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.5805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}