Pith Number

pith:TMH6DXKL

pith:2002:TMH6DXKLB4G3KPMJSTM2DUAME4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimental demonstration of a technique to generate arbitrary quantum superposition states

A. Ben-Kish, B. DeMarco, B.M. Jelenkovi\'c, C. Langer, D.J. Wineland, D. Leibfried, J. Britton, M. Rowe, T. Rosenband, V. Meyer, W.M. Itano

arxiv:quant-ph/0208181 v1 · 2002-08-28 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TMH6DXKLB4G3KPMJSTM2DUAME4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:59.463602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b0fe1dd4b0f0db53d8994d9a1d00c271209f543b74967161ff2391efa61fc31

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0208181 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0208181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0208181 · pith_short_12: TMH6DXKLB4G3 · pith_short_16: TMH6DXKLB4G3KPMJ · pith_short_8: TMH6DXKL

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/TMH6DXKLB4G3KPMJSTM2DUAME4 \
  | 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: 9b0fe1dd4b0f0db53d8994d9a1d00c271209f543b74967161ff2391efa61fc31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fea56be2610cee2c8da62eccc75b01f535b5b34ed6fb772f35666e09e6c422fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-28T20:51:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62722dc13cbef9efa4ec9d688a64614870241bad4eb08b2c3f3f4bdd499c5aa7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0208181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}