Pith Number

pith:CK6X7U6J

pith:2006:CK6X7U6J7IKSQE57IGC3EG3NIG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Degradation of a quantum directional reference frame as a random walk

Barry C. Sanders, Peter S. Turner, Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph

arxiv:quant-ph/0607107 v3 · 2006-07-17 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CK6X7U6J7IKSQE57IGC3EG3NIG}

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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	2026-07-04T15:04:48.598811Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

12bd7fd3c9fa152813bf4185b21b6d418ae23402292214f20084f39a6e1c9c4a

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0607107 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0607107v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0607107 · pith_short_12: CK6X7U6J7IKS · pith_short_16: CK6X7U6J7IKSQE57 · pith_short_8: CK6X7U6J

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/CK6X7U6J7IKSQE57IGC3EG3NIG \
  | 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: 12bd7fd3c9fa152813bf4185b21b6d418ae23402292214f20084f39a6e1c9c4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f55ba02fd727e967f39c11880d458640f9196ff5edc5dcddab2d2a3e89ef4d0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-07-17T02:18:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d86a7972e994b7208e39793f50db8a8da2079877d34275bc563e5b4a7bfa2df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0607107",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}