Pith Number

pith:3S5O7A7M

pith:2010:3S5O7A7MVSHKRVZCCB3LXJ2IPG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Control Theory for State Transformations: Dark States and their Enlightenment

Alastair Kay, Peter J. Pemberton-Ross, S.G. Schirmer

arxiv:1003.4290 v3 · 2010-03-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3S5O7A7MVSHKRVZCCB3LXJ2IPG}

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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	2026-05-18T03:23:48.990653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcbaef83ecac8ea8d7221076bba74879b37b59d4c94eed4e2cf1f7b98ba76258

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.4290 · arxiv_version: 1003.4290v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.4290 · pith_short_12: 3S5O7A7MVSHK · pith_short_16: 3S5O7A7MVSHKRVZC · pith_short_8: 3S5O7A7M

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/3S5O7A7MVSHKRVZCCB3LXJ2IPG \
  | 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: dcbaef83ecac8ea8d7221076bba74879b37b59d4c94eed4e2cf1f7b98ba76258

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5475c03e84b554fed7eb8505d3ffc732fb1d0c937f986951e1e9c8ff2c0b95ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-22T21:41:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ceea55239e26894706374bd99c56851e7d7b66f9c5532a77ee6fd0fc855a4aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.4290",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}