Pith Number

pith:NVKNER73

pith:2012:NVKNER737EIHCQH44XY4QV7HZF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimental generation of multi-photon Fock states

Brian J. Smith, Christoph S\"oller, Laura J. Wright, Merlin Cooper

arxiv:1212.4412 v3 · 2012-12-18 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NVKNER737EIHCQH44XY4QV7HZF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T03:32:31.295233Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d54d247fbf9107140fce5f1c857e7c962d1374028ca1b9a58f174e06e143b44

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4412 · arxiv_version: 1212.4412v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4412 · pith_short_12: NVKNER737EIH · pith_short_16: NVKNER737EIHCQH4 · pith_short_8: NVKNER73

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/NVKNER737EIHCQH44XY4QV7HZF \
  | 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: 6d54d247fbf9107140fce5f1c857e7c962d1374028ca1b9a58f174e06e143b44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "074a52fece293ad0d7483233c9e98a6db3cfb37dae121d26818e992979c9d690",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-18T16:28:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa245d9fd893cc005c681d876571e4faa2c26639bcad34a1d7768f8fdb863ef6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4412",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}