Pith Number

pith:VWND3ZG7

pith:2011:VWND3ZG7OG44BFQWXASZQNZQ22

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photon lifetime in a cavity containing a slow-light medium

C\'edric Proux (LAC), Fabien Bretenaker (LAC), Fabienne Goldfarb (LAC), Rupamanjari Ghosh (JNU), Sylvain Schwartz (TRT), Thomas Laupr\^etre (LAC)

arxiv:1104.0158 v1 · 2011-04-01 · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWND3ZG7OG44BFQWXASZQNZQ22}

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:41.498476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad9a3de4df71b9c09616b825983730d688e3c032d629286e1279b9031091d057

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.0158 · arxiv_version: 1104.0158v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.0158 · pith_short_12: VWND3ZG7OG44 · pith_short_16: VWND3ZG7OG44BFQW · pith_short_8: VWND3ZG7

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/VWND3ZG7OG44BFQWXASZQNZQ22 \
  | 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: ad9a3de4df71b9c09616b825983730d688e3c032d629286e1279b9031091d057

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "816cd86068d3c9d12c54da1d31c52accdfc7571d31989e93c5f43d724723fab4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-01T12:36:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dca0bc26b51ade4faa64824816a728c3a26ac792b28ddcde181c61d44dda78b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.0158",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}