Pith Number

pith:LFZOKJ7F

pith:2016:LFZOKJ7FTQLWPFNU4JEA444GT5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Damped vacuum states of light

T.G. Philbin

arxiv:1603.00233 v2 · 2016-03-01 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LFZOKJ7FTQLWPFNU4JEA444GT5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:18.329557Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5972e527e59c176795b4e2480e73869f7132faaf1407378eb7045c6033141bcd

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.00233 · arxiv_version: 1603.00233v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.00233 · pith_short_12: LFZOKJ7FTQLW · pith_short_16: LFZOKJ7FTQLWPFNU · pith_short_8: LFZOKJ7F

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/LFZOKJ7FTQLWPFNU4JEA444GT5 \
  | 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: 5972e527e59c176795b4e2480e73869f7132faaf1407378eb7045c6033141bcd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbbbcc9e0f86fac94ce80462d36a59a1dca6099114407803f1dd7f3ae3c5086f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-01T11:19:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "115f47df11c684e0e6f207e76996fb1751c5dd7593252d6a0e80dc68b8ee4ba3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.00233",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}