Pith Number

pith:5SAZUWW2

pith:2010:5SAZUWW2V6SFPE245HWV6CLDOF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum-state preparation with universal gate decompositions

Martin Plesch, \v{C}aslav Brukner

arxiv:1003.5760 v2 · 2010-03-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5SAZUWW2V6SFPE245HWV6CLDOF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:27.117357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec819a5adaafa457935ce9ed5f0963716cd71ca6190327d52810eb55a2dc5ca0

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.5760 · arxiv_version: 1003.5760v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.5760 · pith_short_12: 5SAZUWW2V6SF · pith_short_16: 5SAZUWW2V6SFPE24 · pith_short_8: 5SAZUWW2

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/5SAZUWW2V6SFPE245HWV6CLDOF \
  | 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: ec819a5adaafa457935ce9ed5f0963716cd71ca6190327d52810eb55a2dc5ca0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d1011d186d26857030321ad0256ca973c8796d055d74c35b02c8760b9d33be0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-30T08:22:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acf873e2780c13e2d7930c81427afc776a3b32d5e2203128cc9a1df3f5fe14e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.5760",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}