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pith:2KJ2R37D

pith:2011:2KJ2R37DKOEBVYFL4ROYKIKXCC
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On the reality of the quantum state

Jonathan Barrett, Matthew F. Pusey, Terry Rudolph

arxiv:1111.3328 v3 · 2011-11-14 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{2KJ2R37DKOEBVYFL4ROYKIKXCC}

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4 Citations open
5 Replications open
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First computed 2026-05-18T02:20:11.127707Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d293a8efe353881ae0abe45d85215710bb72335c5d6c156e447cbd3c8f68665f

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.3328 · arxiv_version: 1111.3328v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.3328 · pith_short_12: 2KJ2R37DKOEB · pith_short_16: 2KJ2R37DKOEBVYFL · pith_short_8: 2KJ2R37D
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2KJ2R37DKOEBVYFL4ROYKIKXCC \
  | 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: d293a8efe353881ae0abe45d85215710bb72335c5d6c156e447cbd3c8f68665f
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7c580b0426bebc9da8ae7a6de49794ad45a9a1914637510b1029d15394febed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-14T19:10:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d7ff65bf2f4e730912ce639177ceba3c91357317b97bb22784825cc3572e4d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.3328",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}