Pith Number

pith:JP3D6GYD

pith:2012:JP3D6GYDPJOBUWKNJFNMPKVT3L

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Quantum interference of molecules -- probing the wave nature of matter

Anu Venugopalan

arxiv:1211.3493 v1 · 2012-11-15 · physics.pop-ph · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JP3D6GYDPJOBUWKNJFNMPKVT3L}

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:48.535045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4bf63f1b037a5c1a594d495ac7aab3dac9ea18f4deb3c5e35ebffc91dd403586

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3493 · arxiv_version: 1211.3493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3493 · pith_short_12: JP3D6GYDPJOB · pith_short_16: JP3D6GYDPJOBUWKN · pith_short_8: JP3D6GYD

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/JP3D6GYDPJOBUWKNJFNMPKVT3L \
  | 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: 4bf63f1b037a5c1a594d495ac7aab3dac9ea18f4deb3c5e35ebffc91dd403586

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0aaddc3ed26eae7438639fca43c306e6d78a8495e2bba5cead4d545fdf40fafd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-15T05:12:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20c7c7d89046d6dda16dff2ccb96eee1871b74c742c0d860dd5ace6d507672cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}