Pith Number

pith:JBR57WTL

pith:2013:JBR57WTLLTW4DZDGMD3ZMALI73

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Quantum states as complex probabilities: The physics behind direct observations of photon wavefunctions in weak measurements

Holger F. Hofmann

arxiv:1311.0093 v1 · 2013-11-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JBR57WTLLTW4DZDGMD3ZMALI73}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:50:03.194421Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4863dfda6b5cedc1e46660f7960168feef70272555aaf54b6842f45c8fdc2dd1

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.0093 · arxiv_version: 1311.0093v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.0093 · pith_short_12: JBR57WTLLTW4 · pith_short_16: JBR57WTLLTW4DZDG · pith_short_8: JBR57WTL

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/JBR57WTLLTW4DZDGMD3ZMALI73 \
  | 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: 4863dfda6b5cedc1e46660f7960168feef70272555aaf54b6842f45c8fdc2dd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "590cca88c66b5fb75ebf96bd0a0e5e2ff496b5933e61a6465f7517dfa8ad8197",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-01T05:33:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86ceba562933094234563e96a3b90d2c31e2402407e3c4f56cf8db4e98e8ffe5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.0093",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}