Pith Number

pith:ZULJXJAC

pith:2002:ZULJXJACX6TXYM6EOSBCJVQYVP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decoherence can be useful in quantum walks

Ben Tregenna, Viv Kendon

arxiv:quant-ph/0209005 v3 · 2002-08-31 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZULJXJACX6TXYM6EOSBCJVQYVP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:36:09.535514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd169ba402bfa77c33c4748224d618abc3b08d0023b6011e2f505460788f2301

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0209005 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0209005v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0209005 · pith_short_12: ZULJXJACX6TX · pith_short_16: ZULJXJACX6TXYM6E · pith_short_8: ZULJXJAC

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/ZULJXJACX6TXYM6EOSBCJVQYVP \
  | 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: cd169ba402bfa77c33c4748224d618abc3b08d0023b6011e2f505460788f2301

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b53aad9f6cd2ea7d21393268a2cfe926d00981eebd591703fe9c771392bee52f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-31T16:10:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7afb32fe4d73c80e841c7304cc3f914f5fb5ff77f76fb1d91d67f242ff854504"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0209005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}