Pith Number

pith:7CH2PLH5

pith:2001:7CH2PLH5GWLDDLAO33BDJZ3OCN

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The physics of forgetting: Landauer's erasure principle and information theory

M.B. Plenio, V. Vitelli

arxiv:quant-ph/0103108 v1 · 2001-03-19 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{7CH2PLH5GWLDDLAO33BDJZ3OCN}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:28:56.278745Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f88fa7acfd359631ac0edec234e76e136af1c4d288f34fb5a0e5f7ce25b6163e

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0103108 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0103108v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0103108 · pith_short_12: 7CH2PLH5GWLD · pith_short_16: 7CH2PLH5GWLDDLAO · pith_short_8: 7CH2PLH5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7CH2PLH5GWLDDLAO33BDJZ3OCN \
  | 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: f88fa7acfd359631ac0edec234e76e136af1c4d288f34fb5a0e5f7ce25b6163e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92661e0a1c62aa7a4161186d55e0d350475b2de79a4981f31a612c6559b75d1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-03-19T14:56:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5c7953335b36b78a527c269f954291396c07ecc37a9103dbe2a7539caf32919"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0103108",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}