Pith Number

pith:57NHC3S2

pith:2010:57NHC3S2LWHBYN5CMF2YN4CCT7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum memories based on engineered dissipation

Fernando Pastawski, Juan Ignacio Cirac, Lucas Clemente

arxiv:1010.2901 v2 · 2010-10-14 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{57NHC3S2LWHBYN5CMF2YN4CCT7}

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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	2026-05-18T04:30:25.574283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efda716e5a5d8e1c37a2617586f0429feb53b982f319211717c320304edd49a0

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.2901 · arxiv_version: 1010.2901v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.2901 · pith_short_12: 57NHC3S2LWHB · pith_short_16: 57NHC3S2LWHBYN5C · pith_short_8: 57NHC3S2

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/57NHC3S2LWHBYN5CMF2YN4CCT7 \
  | 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: efda716e5a5d8e1c37a2617586f0429feb53b982f319211717c320304edd49a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a6873d24a28c6993b40987bb7ad509d386ace3c3cd44e3a1d0656ada49b832d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-14T13:18:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52522c1d2f55d1d4ecc21481be2cd528709f1f550f14e07b8b85419ac8a097d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.2901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}