Pith Number

pith:V3UVXOSZ

pith:2010:V3UVXOSZB627YK7XITRGVOAQIF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Accessing the purity of a single photon by the width of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference

Christine Silberhorn, Kaisa Laiho, Katiuscia N. Cassemiro

arxiv:1007.2599 v2 · 2010-07-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V3UVXOSZB627YK7XITRGVOAQIF}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:08.773747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aee95bba590fb5fc2bf744e26ab810416c5c07c1224831173d7759b47bf5c787

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.2599 · arxiv_version: 1007.2599v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.2599 · pith_short_12: V3UVXOSZB627 · pith_short_16: V3UVXOSZB627YK7X · pith_short_8: V3UVXOSZ

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/V3UVXOSZB627YK7XITRGVOAQIF \
  | 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: aee95bba590fb5fc2bf744e26ab810416c5c07c1224831173d7759b47bf5c787

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b8a042c591e60f424264a23d6aec3016bc3a8ff6ac7ebf14d208b30f43f4d69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-15T15:57:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "766a73acb76c2dcbf577d9da5cd821906191a0195190ad70091337a81d494a3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.2599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}