Pith Number

pith:SZN3DGSJ

pith:2009:SZN3DGSJDT73CSHFSBHSTIJB72

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum-optical state engineering up to the two-photon level

A.I. Lvovsky, Andrew MacRae, Erwan Bimbard, Nitin Jain

arxiv:0908.4113 v1 · 2009-08-28 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SZN3DGSJDT73CSHFSBHSTIJB72}

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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	2026-05-18T02:12:21.796920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

965bb19a491cffb148e5904f29a121feaf203563c836cc35dae45501779a2ed9

Aliases

arxiv: 0908.4113 · arxiv_version: 0908.4113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0908.4113 · pith_short_12: SZN3DGSJDT73 · pith_short_16: SZN3DGSJDT73CSHF · pith_short_8: SZN3DGSJ

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/SZN3DGSJDT73CSHFSBHSTIJB72 \
  | 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: 965bb19a491cffb148e5904f29a121feaf203563c836cc35dae45501779a2ed9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a83a0107b95e005b92b0ed2f8c7f8e8c9dcfa7ad45922163a840f91d88808f5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-08-28T00:00:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "915ed5a9296316f52deb8378112e825afd9637db78c8196ecb6c28655bba2d4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0908.4113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}