Pith Number

pith:WWGJ23OU

pith:2008:WWGJ23OU2SSPZNSFLWJMHKBB25

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal light storage in atomic vapor

Alexey V. Gorshkov, Irina Novikova, Nathaniel B. Phillips

arxiv:0805.3348 v1 · 2008-05-21 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WWGJ23OU2SSPZNSFLWJMHKBB25}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T17:10:57.739214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b58c9d6dd4d4a4fcb6455d92c3a821d767e93729ad222d906b57747faefb7fa0

Aliases

arxiv: 0805.3348 · arxiv_version: 0805.3348v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0805.3348 · pith_short_12: WWGJ23OU2SSP · pith_short_16: WWGJ23OU2SSPZNSF · pith_short_8: WWGJ23OU

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/WWGJ23OU2SSPZNSFLWJMHKBB25 \
  | 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: b58c9d6dd4d4a4fcb6455d92c3a821d767e93729ad222d906b57747faefb7fa0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30b3bb862e5d60095e4037b0a1958ce323c47c31b25193f9d71b378c6a44d621",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-05-21T20:03:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cbba8c21b90eae6e1471ca7583627fac884f044f1869540b0c0f351fc4288129"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0805.3348",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}