Pith Number

pith:TW5Q73D5

pith:2005:TW5Q73D5E7A6IZUBHH5EBUGQQG

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Sub-Rayleigh resolution of interference pattern with independent laser beams

De-zhong Cao, Feng Huang, Hong-Guo Li, Jun Xiong, Kaige Wang, Xu-Juan Sun

arxiv:physics/0503166 v1 · 2005-03-21 · physics.optics

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:57:05.649763Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9dbb0fec7d27c1e4668139fa40d0d08182036b3435fff03f33312ab30a5cc12e

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0503166 · arxiv_version: physics/0503166v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0503166 · pith_short_12: TW5Q73D5E7A6 · pith_short_16: TW5Q73D5E7A6IZUB · pith_short_8: TW5Q73D5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TW5Q73D5E7A6IZUBHH5EBUGQQG \
  | 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: 9dbb0fec7d27c1e4668139fa40d0d08182036b3435fff03f33312ab30a5cc12e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a07c8e9e849cc836e31475fe85f672e5f06357f1b5330d8b212430c97621980",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2005-03-21T12:02:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "185f606a0951ced6f2af3c62c0c0d9bce81595feb3924e4ece12d8e3143b7232"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0503166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}