Pith Number

pith:MRPGGFBZ

pith:2016:MRPGGFBZII4NX5PA4FPEI22UGU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distinguishability and many-particle interference

Adrian J. Menssen, Alex E. Jones, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Ian A. Walmsley, Malte C. Tichy, Stefanie Barz, W. Steven Kolthammer

arxiv:1609.09804 v1 · 2016-09-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRPGGFBZII4NX5PA4FPEI22UGU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:08.965180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

645e6314394238dbf5e0e15e446b5435393b5b295177e4465d72f54abb26719a

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.09804 · arxiv_version: 1609.09804v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09804 · pith_short_12: MRPGGFBZII4N · pith_short_16: MRPGGFBZII4NX5PA · pith_short_8: MRPGGFBZ

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/MRPGGFBZII4NX5PA4FPEI22UGU \
  | 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: 645e6314394238dbf5e0e15e446b5435393b5b295177e4465d72f54abb26719a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cc54ffa534d3e2e1ba37fc00becb4f14bc64a28fe2db74d8f55863f50d22f7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-30T16:38:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e64c3fd3fa78e4b5080fa6bf310387faacb1c9b3325ffd812f04d1bb80fe19af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.09804",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}