Pith Number

pith:OLKQ3GAQ

pith:2018:OLKQ3GAQM26FGTRZYHRJBLU6EI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Schr\"odinger's cat in an optical sideband

Akira Furusawa, Elanor H. Huntington, Hidehiro Yonezawa, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Shuntaro Takeda, Takahiro Serikawa, Timothy C. Ralph

arxiv:1804.08905 v2 · 2018-04-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OLKQ3GAQM26FGTRZYHRJBLU6EI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:49.087663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72d50d981066bc534e39c1e290ae9e222260c2722af39882270a5c69d7e2ea1a

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.08905 · arxiv_version: 1804.08905v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.08905 · pith_short_12: OLKQ3GAQM26F · pith_short_16: OLKQ3GAQM26FGTRZ · pith_short_8: OLKQ3GAQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OLKQ3GAQM26FGTRZYHRJBLU6EI \
  | 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: 72d50d981066bc534e39c1e290ae9e222260c2722af39882270a5c69d7e2ea1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9850f24457e32f8eddc27dca24959421a2ecc85af40f7e99511548c064db2362",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-24T08:58:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c2b91d858c78b4c9dca4f2831d44438248c4cc083d781c5264d16ae2e52e45e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.08905",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}