Pith Number

pith:J4YZ7Q7I

pith:2012:J4YZ7Q7ISQ52BBAEVOB2KZCXAZ

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Can different quantum state vectors correspond to the same physical state? An experimental test

Daniel Nigg, Esteban A. Martinez, Jonathan Barrett, Markus Hennrich, Matthew F. Pusey, Michael Chwalla, Philipp Schindler, Rainer Blatt, Terry Rudolph, Thomas Monz

arxiv:1211.0942 v1 · 2012-11-05 · quant-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J4YZ7Q7ISQ52BBAEVOB2KZCXAZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:30.147350Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f319fc3e8943ba08404ab83a56457067b01087a4e01f52bb645768e8c7763af

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0942 · arxiv_version: 1211.0942v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0942 · pith_short_12: J4YZ7Q7ISQ52 · pith_short_16: J4YZ7Q7ISQ52BBAE · pith_short_8: J4YZ7Q7I

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/J4YZ7Q7ISQ52BBAEVOB2KZCXAZ \
  | 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: 4f319fc3e8943ba08404ab83a56457067b01087a4e01f52bb645768e8c7763af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0507ed019600e9893053f4f3acb97f5956d4a4ef4e4e5b0b0f323508f1ae3349",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-05T17:39:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df7aa337702a4d03c481d22c7b4ba945756424b53718636c70efe8ba502ecee5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}