Pith Number

pith:VQK76NJ5

pith:2005:VQK76NJ5W5ZDWW7RMVBT4KK2FL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Continuous-variable optical quantum state tomography

A.I.Lvovsky, M.G.Raymer

arxiv:quant-ph/0511044 v2 · 2005-11-05 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQK76NJ5W5ZDWW7RMVBT4KK2FL}

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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	2026-05-18T03:23:46.696935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac15ff353db7723b5bf165433e295a2ae34882913991b83300b58451160bdcc2

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0511044 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0511044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0511044 · pith_short_12: VQK76NJ5W5ZD · pith_short_16: VQK76NJ5W5ZDWW7R · pith_short_8: VQK76NJ5

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/VQK76NJ5W5ZDWW7RMVBT4KK2FL \
  | 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: ac15ff353db7723b5bf165433e295a2ae34882913991b83300b58451160bdcc2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d3392e141d2299a3ec7bb55398bc4492e9dcf8099e741c30f3b7daf71c144d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-11-05T04:59:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d3d73c145ca3eedc13605d77d00ac63159e2772da397cedba015ef6f9fae906"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0511044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}