Pith Number

pith:YMJUCPAF

pith:2012:YMJUCPAFFZPJMMYDC55PRJTQGA

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Experimental characterization of bosonic photon creation and annihilation operators

A. I. Lvovsky, C. Kupchak, E. Barrios, R. Kumar

arxiv:1210.1150 v1 · 2012-10-03 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YMJUCPAFFZPJMMYDC55PRJTQGA}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:54:11.026948Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c313413c052e5e963303177af8a67030018a7fcb11cac8ee06c801c61125fa19

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.1150 · arxiv_version: 1210.1150v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.1150 · pith_short_12: YMJUCPAFFZPJ · pith_short_16: YMJUCPAFFZPJMMYD · pith_short_8: YMJUCPAF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YMJUCPAFFZPJMMYDC55PRJTQGA \
  | 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: c313413c052e5e963303177af8a67030018a7fcb11cac8ee06c801c61125fa19

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea26857ad110e900a45daab7861b2e0baab8396a20465955e7650807b1da9ad2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-03T15:38:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b018f4d496c1977b302c47696aee2375e305dc03587b284f392af78be1f25256"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.1150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}