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pith:4U67G6QN

pith:2018:4U67G6QNBINDSP4Q4E3KQQFTKS

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Variational ansatz-based quantum simulation of imaginary time evolution

Sam McArdle, Simon Benjamin, Suguru Endo, Tyson Jones, Xiao Yuan, Ying Li

arxiv:1804.03023 v4 · 2018-04-09 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:04:36.929378Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e53df37a0d0a1a393f90e136a840b354a5318cb7885faaf3dbff0af211fba250

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.03023 · arxiv_version: 1804.03023v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.03023 · pith_short_12: 4U67G6QNBIND · pith_short_16: 4U67G6QNBINDSP4Q · pith_short_8: 4U67G6QN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4U67G6QNBINDSP4Q4E3KQQFTKS \
  | 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: e53df37a0d0a1a393f90e136a840b354a5318cb7885faaf3dbff0af211fba250

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-09T14:36:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d20f26e138632f36c169b6b1e03576f3c3fabbb45ee39d6d779d375c1f113d4"
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