Pith Number

pith:UBJOVC53

pith:2006:UBJOVC53BHHYTHMKQE3V2XUHY4

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Efficient retrieval of a single excitation stored in an atomic ensemble

Chin-wen Chou, Daniel Felinto, Erik Schomburg, H. Jeff Kimble, Hugues de Riedmatten, Julien Laurat

arxiv:quant-ph/0605122 v2 · 2006-05-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UBJOVC53BHHYTHMKQE3V2XUHY4}

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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	2026-07-04T17:03:00.889810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a052ea8bbb09cf899d8a81375d5e87c73659489550d2b432b39b1563d24a2674

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0605122 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0605122v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0605122 · pith_short_12: UBJOVC53BHHY · pith_short_16: UBJOVC53BHHYTHMK · pith_short_8: UBJOVC53

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/UBJOVC53BHHYTHMKQE3V2XUHY4 \
  | 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: a052ea8bbb09cf899d8a81375d5e87c73659489550d2b432b39b1563d24a2674

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95af488f321973770c7207ae515b9be8827533a0810bfa96007512581ac6b03d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-05-15T06:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50fffe40ce267f74aaccdfbc36f2b50193679cb72eb8141a00cd9f9fd2e8b0b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0605122",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}