Pith Number

pith:2MIWFKYE

pith:2010:2MIWFKYEXRCY23AN5PTYVR245Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decay of Coherence and Entanglement of a Superposition State for a Continuous Variable System in an Arbitrary Heat Bath

G. W. Ford, R. F. O'Connell

arxiv:1005.3837 v1 · 2010-05-20 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2MIWFKYEXRCY23AN5PTYVR245Q}

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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	2026-05-18T04:39:50.213139Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d31162ab04bc458d6c0debe78ac75cec339e740d23e2d160e5004176175aa718

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.3837 · arxiv_version: 1005.3837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.3837 · pith_short_12: 2MIWFKYEXRCY · pith_short_16: 2MIWFKYEXRCY23AN · pith_short_8: 2MIWFKYE

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/2MIWFKYEXRCY23AN5PTYVR245Q \
  | 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: d31162ab04bc458d6c0debe78ac75cec339e740d23e2d160e5004176175aa718

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8efb43831b67629b9a30446ea6def6f88ab3d1e236651075899acd975f6c5bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-20T20:35:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62868503f7e1bd864c94f0405eed7e07a651ae2a46032411057fb64dd3b81cdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.3837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}