Pith Number

pith:IMHM3A4E

pith:2012:IMHM3A4EY4L777JJNUE2BK56BX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Macroscopic superpositions via nested interferometry: finite temperature and decoherence considerations

Brian Pepper, Christoph Simon, Dirk Bouwmeester, Evan Jeffrey, Roohollah Ghobadi

arxiv:1207.1946 v1 · 2012-07-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMHM3A4EY4L777JJNUE2BK56BX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:12.461674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

430ecd8384c717fffd296d09a0abbe0de46db17cb344460d1b8321dec54b4eef

Aliases

arxiv: 1207.1946 · arxiv_version: 1207.1946v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1207.1946 · pith_short_12: IMHM3A4EY4L7 · pith_short_16: IMHM3A4EY4L777JJ · pith_short_8: IMHM3A4E

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/IMHM3A4EY4L777JJNUE2BK56BX \
  | 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: 430ecd8384c717fffd296d09a0abbe0de46db17cb344460d1b8321dec54b4eef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d2ba5b4b69286875d7da4002dbbce6e69a3f67661700842366821d73bfebe1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-07-09T04:40:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a9cc5faf1f35e6e63ff26756d9a0458365952711a0a2a0724f1e6f0c4159ea4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1207.1946",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}