Pith Number

pith:VOS6AG53

pith:2014:VOS6AG53EEGTLDACTNCOAJ4532

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum delayed-choice experiment with a beam splitter in a quantum superposition

A. N. Cleland, Chui-ping Yang, H. Wang, John M. Martinis, Kai Xu, Li-Tuo Shen, Qi-Jue Wang, Shi-Biao Zheng, Si-Yuan Han, You-Peng Zhong

arxiv:1403.0203 v2 · 2014-03-02 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{VOS6AG53EEGTLDACTNCOAJ4532}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:43.741415Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aba5e01bbb210d358c029b44e0279dde8291089719c021d3eec56c2b291f0299

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.0203 · arxiv_version: 1403.0203v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.0203 · pith_short_12: VOS6AG53EEGT · pith_short_16: VOS6AG53EEGTLDAC · pith_short_8: VOS6AG53

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VOS6AG53EEGTLDACTNCOAJ4532 \
  | 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: aba5e01bbb210d358c029b44e0279dde8291089719c021d3eec56c2b291f0299

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f10565942a4003def3ec50ae7e225053f43bad85c4f1eeee9cd8b033fab9c56a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-02T12:31:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71d93093495290e62167791533b5122ffe73eb28cccd4a5e797dbff39b99ebe2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.0203",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}