Pith Number

pith:JNM2FDIH

pith:2010:JNM2FDIHWUIPU2LYBNNCFOE5QM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generation of Optical Coherent State Superpositions by Number-Resolved Photon Subtraction from Squeezed Vacuum

Aaron J. Miller, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Brice Calkins, Emanuel Knill, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Scott Glancy, Thomas Gerrits, Tracy S. Clement

arxiv:1004.2727 v4 · 2010-04-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JNM2FDIHWUIPU2LYBNNCFOE5QM}

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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	2026-05-18T04:30:14.434613Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b59a28d07b510fa69780b5a22b89d830a21a2b6e70700e4e0eca9e9b43998d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.2727 · arxiv_version: 1004.2727v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.2727 · pith_short_12: JNM2FDIHWUIP · pith_short_16: JNM2FDIHWUIPU2LY · pith_short_8: JNM2FDIH

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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/JNM2FDIHWUIPU2LYBNNCFOE5QM \
  | 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: 4b59a28d07b510fa69780b5a22b89d830a21a2b6e70700e4e0eca9e9b43998d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2a99e3e98a0c8b53eb78a176120dc64ed3a5cd2b4f77c24bb2d03c376e51378",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-15T22:14:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4370a0b94b004b3713ba589cf6b3f0fa898cde82d6b7a6c2e3cf34a4bc824900"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.2727",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}