Pith Number

pith:XQUAFI5Y

pith:2019:XQUAFI5YOVWG3SLDKIO4HRRGQN

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Photon statistics of quantum light on scattering from rotating ground glass

Fu Li, G. S. Agarwal, Sheng-Wen Li, Tao Peng

arxiv:1911.08694 v1 · 2019-11-20 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQUAFI5YOVWG3SLDKIO4HRRGQN}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:14:32.034187Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc2802a3b8756c6dc963521dc3c6268352998dd10e6a809942db67d6e861d03c

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.08694 · arxiv_version: 1911.08694v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.08694 · pith_short_12: XQUAFI5YOVWG · pith_short_16: XQUAFI5YOVWG3SLD · pith_short_8: XQUAFI5Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XQUAFI5YOVWG3SLDKIO4HRRGQN \
  | 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: bc2802a3b8756c6dc963521dc3c6268352998dd10e6a809942db67d6e861d03c

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-20T04:07:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b0428aaddb33bcf905a071fcac86e86032033bd0746f062638999ac7f716f4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.08694",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}