Pith Number

pith:JT3PLZ4A

pith:1997:JT3PLZ4AMMRCJKYJW6GC7RLSIC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum harmonic oscillator state synthesis and analysis

B. E. King, C. Monroe, D. J. Wineland, D. Leibfried, D. M. Meekhof, W. M. Itano

arxiv:quant-ph/9702038 v1 · 1997-02-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JT3PLZ4AMMRCJKYJW6GC7RLSIC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:53.279739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4cf6f5e780632224ab09b78c2fc57240a41dc889a8639273cca09f619137342a

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9702038 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9702038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9702038 · pith_short_12: JT3PLZ4AMMRC · pith_short_16: JT3PLZ4AMMRCJKYJ · pith_short_8: JT3PLZ4A

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/JT3PLZ4AMMRCJKYJW6GC7RLSIC \
  | 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: 4cf6f5e780632224ab09b78c2fc57240a41dc889a8639273cca09f619137342a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11fb97d4197ba1dc60bbf999ded3cd708384624488745b013484e00b89e7e211",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-02-19T21:17:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fdb1f6b1878655512a8a5baa363389eace912a47efbc39f2233b41e4ec0692b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9702038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}