Pith Number

pith:46GEQZXZ

pith:2002:46GEQZXZNXR6YJKJDLJ2NO2RPI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Inferring superposition and entanglement from measurements in a single basis

Adrian Kent, Bella Schelpe, Bristol), Tim Spiller (Hewlett Packard Labs, William Munro

arxiv:quant-ph/0208060 v4 · 2002-08-09 · quant-ph · cond-mat.supr-con

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46GEQZXZNXR6YJKJDLJ2NO2RPI}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:42:02.130649Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e78c4866f96de3ec25491ad3a6bb517a05a610b6fc8394894062859244a3c481

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0208060 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0208060v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0208060 · pith_short_12: 46GEQZXZNXR6 · pith_short_16: 46GEQZXZNXR6YJKJ · pith_short_8: 46GEQZXZ

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/46GEQZXZNXR6YJKJDLJ2NO2RPI \
  | 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: e78c4866f96de3ec25491ad3a6bb517a05a610b6fc8394894062859244a3c481

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4d353aae3e2a18e660e8112ab64f0c228659e6c41214168683191f1994e03eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.supr-con"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-09T15:47:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0dea69f6275e84b0c0f81158d5e3c0de4b0da1be3bc2644b9d054d795ab75879"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0208060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}