Pith Number

pith:PHAA6I5Q

pith:2016:PHAA6I5QWXH6ACJ2CBANRWBJE4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exotic Looped Trajectories of Photons in Three-Slit Interference

Akbar Safari, Brandon Rodenburg, Brian McIntyre, Gerd Leuchs, Israel De Leon, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magana-Loaiza, Peter Banzer, Robert Fickler, Robert W. Boyd, Uwe Mick

arxiv:1610.08585 v1 · 2016-10-27 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PHAA6I5QWXH6ACJ2CBANRWBJE4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:08.734756Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79c00f23b0b5cfe0093a1040d8d8292723b06664d12286c2d2ba357d792d87e3

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.08585 · arxiv_version: 1610.08585v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.08585 · pith_short_12: PHAA6I5QWXH6 · pith_short_16: PHAA6I5QWXH6ACJ2 · pith_short_8: PHAA6I5Q

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/PHAA6I5QWXH6ACJ2CBANRWBJE4 \
  | 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: 79c00f23b0b5cfe0093a1040d8d8292723b06664d12286c2d2ba357d792d87e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2229782c336418966795d16f31839a17573c46db50ab8cc75ac82d62d240525",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-27T01:07:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b2b02f0c58627e531f388d5517c9036b8dce0f36098c7f7d096d78fdc263e2c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.08585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}