Pith Number

pith:Y3L7OCRF

pith:2010:Y3L7OCRFU3VQBHYL5IHQ7OOQIE

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Enhancing image contrast using coherent states and photon number resolving detectors

Aaron Pearlman, Alan Migdall, Alexander Ling, Elizabeth Goldschmidt, Jingyun Fan

arxiv:1001.3603 v1 · 2010-01-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3L7OCRFU3VQBHYL5IHQ7OOQIE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:09:31.923614Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6d7f70a25a6eb009f0bea0f0fb9d041244e04c637dc910bce18ecb1f280ebed

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.3603 · arxiv_version: 1001.3603v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.3603 · pith_short_12: Y3L7OCRFU3VQ · pith_short_16: Y3L7OCRFU3VQBHYL · pith_short_8: Y3L7OCRF

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/Y3L7OCRFU3VQBHYL5IHQ7OOQIE \
  | 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: c6d7f70a25a6eb009f0bea0f0fb9d041244e04c637dc910bce18ecb1f280ebed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "010581fbeb024fe0a09bd63252cdf339d2d78901a7f43cf4069403279cbda755",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-20T16:03:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22877062f9c2a4e364530006c7b8ed53fd4852412d205fb6ed016a9f32032ee6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.3603",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}