Pith Number

pith:MA2PT3VB

pith:1997:MA2PT3VBAOSWSVEAPAJ76OPZQT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Scheme to Probe the Decoherence of a Macroscopic Object

K. Jacobs, P. L. Knight, S. Bose

arxiv:quant-ph/9712017 v2 · 1997-12-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MA2PT3VBAOSWSVEAPAJ76OPZQT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:16:20.804612Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6034f9eea103a56954807813ff39f984d116f7535cbfc5fef8ab3c702d723598

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9712017 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9712017v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9712017 · pith_short_12: MA2PT3VBAOSW · pith_short_16: MA2PT3VBAOSWSVEA · pith_short_8: MA2PT3VB

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/MA2PT3VBAOSWSVEAPAJ76OPZQT \
  | 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: 6034f9eea103a56954807813ff39f984d116f7535cbfc5fef8ab3c702d723598

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1dfdd8427e702d1ac7a29d7a39fb64c36052afdbd2f4a49881ad5c856390e45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-08T14:56:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9737d13bb26a071de7c0871340c05b5497f89f64a44d1d3fbb44cd1f6292c168"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9712017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}