Pith Number

pith:Z4CB4EED

pith:2014:Z4CB4EEDR7S3GYRC47ZTE5WCGW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spontaneous down conversion in metal-dielectric interface - a possible source of polarization-entangled photons

Ardi Loot, Vladimir Hizhnyakov

arxiv:1406.2174 v1 · 2014-06-09 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{Z4CB4EEDR7S3GYRC47ZTE5WCGW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:50:11.358973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf041e10838fe5b36222e7f33276c235a109b23dbf1586357bb3d6a8000586c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.2174 · arxiv_version: 1406.2174v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.2174 · pith_short_12: Z4CB4EEDR7S3 · pith_short_16: Z4CB4EEDR7S3GYRC · pith_short_8: Z4CB4EED

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z4CB4EEDR7S3GYRC47ZTE5WCGW \
  | 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: cf041e10838fe5b36222e7f33276c235a109b23dbf1586357bb3d6a8000586c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5d2634954020e795db80288931f8989d7d9364fb78203e6d7cba047d6965d19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-09T13:28:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20ff5f86d02aaef8f9e6c44bb922f37a8aed3d5fe8862b112da0fe7b5f575c98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.2174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}