Pith Number

pith:KQWAZJ7M

pith:2012:KQWAZJ7MJUYYD7J23VN5BACPR4

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Talbot Effect with Matter Waves

Farhan Saif

arxiv:1203.3858 v1 · 2012-03-17 · physics.gen-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KQWAZJ7MJUYYD7J23VN5BACPR4}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:58:06.456949Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

542c0ca7ec4d3181fd3add5bd0804f8f37077febca94e0f8f90b6cde0fe4e5d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.3858 · arxiv_version: 1203.3858v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.3858 · pith_short_12: KQWAZJ7MJUYY · pith_short_16: KQWAZJ7MJUYYD7J2 · pith_short_8: KQWAZJ7M

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/KQWAZJ7MJUYYD7J23VN5BACPR4 \
  | 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: 542c0ca7ec4d3181fd3add5bd0804f8f37077febca94e0f8f90b6cde0fe4e5d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3bf0b6063f30ddd44012bef14e72d332c5ae6a603031fa03e3b66d3c6cc24b1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-17T12:23:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5dbcdcef3f3f3597194bbc039f726519b59565bfe9e642de564957d01145c416"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.3858",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}