Pith Number

pith:LA5ORECS

pith:2001:LA5ORECSWQWEUYP4TYEOFMOTU3

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Evolution of an Atom Impeded by Measurement: The Quantum Zeno Effect

Chr. Balzer, Chr. Wunderlich, P.E. Toschek

arxiv:quant-ph/0108040 v1 · 2001-08-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LA5ORECSWQWEUYP4TYEOFMOTU3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:02.549176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

583ae89052b42c4a61fc9e08e2b1d3a6fce0e4ab4f3304312e7d6ac25d227bf3

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0108040 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0108040v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0108040 · pith_short_12: LA5ORECSWQWE · pith_short_16: LA5ORECSWQWEUYP4 · pith_short_8: LA5ORECS

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/LA5ORECSWQWEUYP4TYEOFMOTU3 \
  | 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: 583ae89052b42c4a61fc9e08e2b1d3a6fce0e4ab4f3304312e7d6ac25d227bf3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a434186ec4402493d176211111cffc3b8ed436f446634e82dc884f0ac300f065",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-08-08T17:53:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "894c34aefed242c2f20c3fcd5bc5d8a3c7c997f0d3c096f816562af5a672dbf7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0108040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}