Pith Number

pith:QFNSU6IS

pith:2016:QFNSU6ISC5AWUG6OWCPESRTLXQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spontaneous emergence of free-space optical and atomic patterns

Bonnie L. Schmittberger, Daniel J. Gauthier

arxiv:1603.06294 v4 · 2016-03-21 · physics.atom-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QFNSU6ISC5AWUG6OWCPESRTLXQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:20.932174Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

815b2a791217416a1bceb09e49466bbc281d52523a089c5cd48983dbcca561f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.06294 · arxiv_version: 1603.06294v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06294 · pith_short_12: QFNSU6ISC5AW · pith_short_16: QFNSU6ISC5AWUG6O · pith_short_8: QFNSU6IS

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/QFNSU6ISC5AWUG6OWCPESRTLXQ \
  | 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: 815b2a791217416a1bceb09e49466bbc281d52523a089c5cd48983dbcca561f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "177da91eff11932851e110cf1559662a96739d40bf04ea265c979ea90e2ac901",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.atom-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-21T00:03:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed63c1d9ba7e7a6472d7bbe2faae178076ea4f9511c909114d74880c34220cff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.06294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}