Pith Number

pith:2AAYND6I

pith:1998:2AAYND6IQCLNHKEKD2QHN5DR3N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum limit of decoherence: Environment induced superselection of energy eigenstates

Juan Pablo Paz, Wojciech Hubert Zurek

arxiv:quant-ph/9811026 v1 · 1998-11-12 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2AAYND6IQCLNHKEKD2QHN5DR3N}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:16:20.690413Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d001868fc88096d3a88a1ea076f471db60eb8dc4979f212737423feb04b4642c

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9811026 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9811026v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9811026 · pith_short_12: 2AAYND6IQCLN · pith_short_16: 2AAYND6IQCLNHKEK · pith_short_8: 2AAYND6I

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/2AAYND6IQCLNHKEKD2QHN5DR3N \
  | 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: d001868fc88096d3a88a1ea076f471db60eb8dc4979f212737423feb04b4642c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d74c22f6e3c67c91d368626ebe0b55061434e484ed1bae7dd15386d34b625857",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-11-12T14:52:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c8373ab304c567f45fcd5cf5c5aaf30535aee1a4df1bf32e52b0385af5ec265"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9811026",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}