Pith Number

pith:2A6ZCPPH

pith:2024:2A6ZCPPHSHT3UYKYDKMVYYFP5V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum-enhanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo for systems larger than your Quantum Computer

Petros Wallden, Stuart Ferguson

arxiv:2405.04247 v2 · 2024-05-07 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2A6ZCPPHSHT3UYKYDKMVYYFP5V}

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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	2026-07-05T10:23:53.502327Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d03d913de791e7ba61581a995c60afed546439e926e7c8587ea5b38d74797f82

Aliases

arxiv: 2405.04247 · arxiv_version: 2405.04247v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.04247 · pith_short_12: 2A6ZCPPHSHT3 · pith_short_16: 2A6ZCPPHSHT3UYKY · pith_short_8: 2A6ZCPPH

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/2A6ZCPPHSHT3UYKYDKMVYYFP5V \
  | 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: d03d913de791e7ba61581a995c60afed546439e926e7c8587ea5b38d74797f82

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bb6bdcf4ff194bbe24e5a20edd3213c622dc0a94c1228381b48da116b241cc4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-07T12:04:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69ee37a06f4487cf9de00b5081689fe15bdef3b864679431c3c4c9c0e1099bcf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2405.04247",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}