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pith:VOMLPNPK

pith:2015:VOMLPNPKCIO7TZUKOER3BCEJGL

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Shifting the Quantum-Classical Boundary: Theory and Experiment for Statistically Classical Optical Fields

Bethany Little, J.H. Eberly, John C. Howell, Xiao-Feng Qian

arxiv:1506.01305 v2 · 2015-06-03 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{VOMLPNPKCIO7TZUKOER3BCEJGL}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:37:48.767075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab98b7b5ea121df9e68a7123b0888932fa8bd72c8065d0311b5c927231619e59

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.01305 · arxiv_version: 1506.01305v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.01305 · pith_short_12: VOMLPNPKCIO7 · pith_short_16: VOMLPNPKCIO7TZUK · pith_short_8: VOMLPNPK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VOMLPNPKCIO7TZUKOER3BCEJGL \
  | 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: ab98b7b5ea121df9e68a7123b0888932fa8bd72c8065d0311b5c927231619e59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0280f4566f1a7ccadc54eb5560320c98775ef0a37c7736747c05bc69e1c32e00",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-03T16:38:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db0a0beda5f1240defa3024d03d8c6bc5394d14243215fe1815a76833d716c35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.01305",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}