Pith Number

pith:LHFZ2BSM

pith:2018:LHFZ2BSMC4VP72XF2SGEXEVP6F

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Superthermal photon bunching in terms of simple probability distributions

B. Melcher, H.A.M. Leymann, J. Wiersig, T. Lettau

arxiv:1802.06417 v2 · 2018-02-18 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LHFZ2BSMC4VP72XF2SGEXEVP6F}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:46.242348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59cb9d064c172affeae5d48c4b92aff17a57ad96908f3a2e09505aedb089e978

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.06417 · arxiv_version: 1802.06417v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.06417 · pith_short_12: LHFZ2BSMC4VP · pith_short_16: LHFZ2BSMC4VP72XF · pith_short_8: LHFZ2BSM

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/LHFZ2BSMC4VP72XF2SGEXEVP6F \
  | 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: 59cb9d064c172affeae5d48c4b92aff17a57ad96908f3a2e09505aedb089e978

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b831afdbe885f77a51a5f17efc36ee932e8f36a61ebcbdbbf5c883cc7060ca3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-18T18:06:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58d77e34e4e29b69c1047239a9b20cde704bf8b4f0daa95fcf89684d7c76cc7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.06417",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}