Pith Number

pith:WXVPSQHW

pith:2017:WXVPSQHWC56DDFWKWQDG5RQQ3V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Accessing dark states optically through excitation-ferrying states

Gregory S. Engel, Sabre Kais, Zixuan Hu

arxiv:1703.09614 v3 · 2017-03-24 · physics.chem-ph · physics.bio-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXVPSQHWC56DDFWKWQDG5RQQ3V}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:03.386603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5eaf940f6177c3196cab4066ec610dd551a303df5c8c3941a263ecd5014f9f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.09614 · arxiv_version: 1703.09614v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.09614 · pith_short_12: WXVPSQHWC56D · pith_short_16: WXVPSQHWC56DDFWK · pith_short_8: WXVPSQHW

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/WXVPSQHWC56DDFWKWQDG5RQQ3V \
  | 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: b5eaf940f6177c3196cab4066ec610dd551a303df5c8c3941a263ecd5014f9f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "052695401241fc288ee9d5fa9be2428787fa3abc2f4097e9dc2c48d511592759",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.chem-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-24T20:17:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2475a6813a41e2c1d99efa0eb96bae9b3e9e01f1e0d02cf85e7857e35119c7e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.09614",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}