Pith Number

pith:ILDXPQM3

pith:2016:ILDXPQM3NH26BOLU4RGXYQA6YL

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Particle Path Through a Nested Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Robert B. Griffiths

arxiv:1604.04596 v2 · 2016-04-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILDXPQM3NH26BOLU4RGXYQA6YL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:19.255694Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42c777c19b69f5e0b974e44d7c401ec2ee196d9d4ddfe56bef28fdba5db0b3f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.04596 · arxiv_version: 1604.04596v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.04596 · pith_short_12: ILDXPQM3NH26 · pith_short_16: ILDXPQM3NH26BOLU · pith_short_8: ILDXPQM3

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/ILDXPQM3NH26BOLU4RGXYQA6YL \
  | 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: 42c777c19b69f5e0b974e44d7c401ec2ee196d9d4ddfe56bef28fdba5db0b3f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4c264b5e47467e1c65ebb29a703a73c3e9ecb10deb234e33eaa09305b0e5d52",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-15T18:46:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df5a451e41cc91a1cf2c94cac6879901b5bbd018c97f571f571ac2e5f83e48c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.04596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}