Pith Number

pith:P44F642E

pith:2017:P44F642EIACTQKJ4AG4JKHD5ZA

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A Wigner Function Approach to Coherence in a Talbot-Lau Interferometer

Eric Imhof, James Stickney, Matthew Squires

arxiv:1703.06864 v1 · 2017-03-20 · physics.atom-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P44F642EIACTQKJ4AG4JKHD5ZA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:48:21.510843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f385f7344400538293c01b8951c7dc8120e64968af8d58217d115d42a1ebe6b

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.06864 · arxiv_version: 1703.06864v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.06864 · pith_short_12: P44F642EIACT · pith_short_16: P44F642EIACTQKJ4 · pith_short_8: P44F642E

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P44F642EIACTQKJ4AG4JKHD5ZA \
  | 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: 7f385f7344400538293c01b8951c7dc8120e64968af8d58217d115d42a1ebe6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0aa2aaba504752f9d088d0f9210179d0dcaad33644965e475dcd23ec6044c19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.atom-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-20T17:37:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "485e3cb5eb3f98762534a2f89f4c838465a5149f2eb4b53df507e78a31461c6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.06864",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}