Pith Number

pith:PHP4RYIH

pith:2026:PHP4RYIHSO4G3FI42VTDP5MR7E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

One-photon communication in atomic media

John C. Schotland, Zixiang Hong

arxiv:2605.22797 v1 · 2026-05-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PHP4RYIHSO4G3FI42VTDP5MR7E}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-22T02:04:55.305428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79dfc8e10793b86d951cd56637f591f9117564c4b4a817d8d931af9539c6bda5

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22797 · arxiv_version: 2605.22797v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22797 · pith_short_12: PHP4RYIHSO4G · pith_short_16: PHP4RYIHSO4G3FI4 · pith_short_8: PHP4RYIH

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/PHP4RYIHSO4G3FI42VTDP5MR7E \
  | 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: 79dfc8e10793b86d951cd56637f591f9117564c4b4a817d8d931af9539c6bda5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ffe63fe01dff751a367f10ed5269f9df72a083e5f32f9b8b43bd7c398094fb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T17:50:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc79edd53d561db6b60bbab461813a9b0628b36e2f1e84d5e2b9ee4271644d03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22797",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}