Pith Number

pith:UV3C7WCH

pith:2002:UV3C7WCHFT4PN7WLILF6LYG6G4

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Slow Light Propagation in a Thin Optical Fiber via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Anil K. Patnaik, J.Q. Liang, K. Hakuta

arxiv:quant-ph/0207123 v2 · 2002-07-22 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UV3C7WCHFT4PN7WLILF6LYG6G4}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:36:07.510270Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5762fd8472cf8f6fecb42cbe5e0de372b2d73334d3513b00132494baac22478

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0207123 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0207123v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0207123 · pith_short_12: UV3C7WCHFT4P · pith_short_16: UV3C7WCHFT4PN7WL · pith_short_8: UV3C7WCH

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/UV3C7WCHFT4PN7WLILF6LYG6G4 \
  | 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: a5762fd8472cf8f6fecb42cbe5e0de372b2d73334d3513b00132494baac22478

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a4d2b89d6572470f11f1da3e6ce0189c47d3c0057bd4c625b4fd612560e5056",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-07-22T04:34:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89c94fc368fabbe5225ed39881e9ef20ff9808dc4be6ffa292cf4642caf25994"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0207123",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}