Pith Number

pith:ZZ3KBJWF

pith:2010:ZZ3KBJWFHSI343OPF3KZEI7D5Z

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Efficient excitation of a two level atom by a single photon in a propagating mode

Ji\v{r}\'i Min\'a\v{r}, Lana Sheridan, Valerio Scarani, Yimin Wang

arxiv:1010.4661 v2 · 2010-10-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZZ3KBJWFHSI343OPF3KZEI7D5Z}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:23:47.570826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce76a0a6c53c91be6dcf2ed59223e3ee607402b2d9e4895c279c92a4c25bac68

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.4661 · arxiv_version: 1010.4661v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.4661 · pith_short_12: ZZ3KBJWFHSI3 · pith_short_16: ZZ3KBJWFHSI343OP · pith_short_8: ZZ3KBJWF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZZ3KBJWFHSI343OPF3KZEI7D5Z \
  | 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: ce76a0a6c53c91be6dcf2ed59223e3ee607402b2d9e4895c279c92a4c25bac68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9a9b020687e13544bf9330142266f6c3cb23f76ec3a940892d185cc26bb4d74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-22T10:05:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7417a04e83de5ad2d3eac68056e22a0cf92b66bfe52c94653636d30846471249"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.4661",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}