Pith Number

pith:T4V5DI4Y

pith:2005:T4V5DI4YHSAJO6E5MBE4BY5ZVT

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Light Qubit Storage and Retrieval using Macroscopic Atomic Ensembles

A. S. Soerensen, E. Polzik, J. Fiurasek, J. Sherson, K. Moelmer

arxiv:quant-ph/0505170 v2 · 2005-05-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T4V5DI4YHSAJO6E5MBE4BY5ZVT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:02.927542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f2bd1a3983c8097789d6049c0e3b9acf34a8e6c8d20e030918cbba5bd227802

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0505170 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0505170v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0505170 · pith_short_12: T4V5DI4YHSAJ · pith_short_16: T4V5DI4YHSAJO6E5 · pith_short_8: T4V5DI4Y

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/T4V5DI4YHSAJO6E5MBE4BY5ZVT \
  | 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: 9f2bd1a3983c8097789d6049c0e3b9acf34a8e6c8d20e030918cbba5bd227802

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48a03f6f58bd41d3ea9671e1f802866abd32549738ff36c5b27dc798b42b2e0b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-05-23T13:23:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b12590a020febfea1985c911dd665655b5de709c540e5ca0ff0cfb4fee7304ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0505170",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}