Pith Number

pith:6PLDFZZQ

pith:2012:6PLDFZZQHERGHTZLXYO5IBMH33

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The Quantum Zeno Effect -- Watched Pots in the Quantum World

Anu Venugopalan

arxiv:1211.3498 v1 · 2012-11-15 · physics.hist-ph · physics.pop-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6PLDFZZQHERGHTZLXYO5IBMH33}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:40:48.514563Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3d632e730392263cf2bbe1dd40587dec00b3626077853c941ebcbbb3d883728

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3498 · arxiv_version: 1211.3498v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3498 · pith_short_12: 6PLDFZZQHERG · pith_short_16: 6PLDFZZQHERGHTZL · pith_short_8: 6PLDFZZQ

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/6PLDFZZQHERGHTZLXYO5IBMH33 \
  | 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: f3d632e730392263cf2bbe1dd40587dec00b3626077853c941ebcbbb3d883728

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d1487b778112bea7504c921d0e6bd64dc166437e156461a5764dd866d19a829",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-15T05:41:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27632c5e1052ec734b619c1f9acb94c57ea3287df1cd2b6c9c5dccbb7c7bc1a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3498",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}