Pith Number

pith:NFQW3WBX

pith:2015:NFQW3WBXRIH2ZRHYAT4TFSL5AY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Adaptive identification of coherent states

Frank K. Wilhelm, Kevin Pack, Markku P.V. Stenberg

arxiv:1508.04412 v2 · 2015-08-18 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NFQW3WBXRIH2ZRHYAT4TFSL5AY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:16.222281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69616dd8378a0facc4f804f932c97d060f88eff1d34083882f9cf960d52d0bfa

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.04412 · arxiv_version: 1508.04412v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.04412 · pith_short_12: NFQW3WBXRIH2 · pith_short_16: NFQW3WBXRIH2ZRHY · pith_short_8: NFQW3WBX

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/NFQW3WBXRIH2ZRHYAT4TFSL5AY \
  | 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: 69616dd8378a0facc4f804f932c97d060f88eff1d34083882f9cf960d52d0bfa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "60f1f44613f2228f3613b3fc4ec22003d2ff5b2691791ba55c68541c2f86c725",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-18T19:05:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8967ce2ba503ce4cf5e231e8d56d45ac79520b5a3a1f473c7e38d9104905f3fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.04412",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}