Pith Number

pith:TZTJBLNM

pith:2009:TZTJBLNM5TCHLNNBVGCVS2YCQL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Instant single-photon Fock state tomography

A. I. Lvovsky, A. N. Zhang, Frank Vewinger, Nitin Jain, S. A. Babichev, S. H. Youn, S. R. Huisman

arxiv:0905.4910 v2 · 2009-05-29 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TZTJBLNM5TCHLNNBVGCVS2YCQL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:13:30.660997Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e6690adacecc475b5a1a985596b0282f08b1c97127ca8a9ff72c4a9ceda2286

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.4910 · arxiv_version: 0905.4910v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.4910 · pith_short_12: TZTJBLNM5TCH · pith_short_16: TZTJBLNM5TCHLNNB · pith_short_8: TZTJBLNM

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/TZTJBLNM5TCHLNNBVGCVS2YCQL \
  | 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: 9e6690adacecc475b5a1a985596b0282f08b1c97127ca8a9ff72c4a9ceda2286

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5bfbe0203543e3f3daf1b74def27b80cdb7220113b269b2b207e4216297c83e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-29T15:59:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abf293fbc957efde3f1fed6385bec74c0517525927c8bf9526ebca830c1cc6cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.4910",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}