Pith Number

pith:5WB3PHVD

pith:1999:5WB3PHVD3VEG2DF5PLYOF23FZG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Computation as a Dynamical Process

G.D. Doolen, G.P. Berman, V.I. Tsifrinovich

arxiv:quant-ph/9904105 v1 · 1999-04-29 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5WB3PHVD3VEG2DF5PLYOF23FZG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:14.378405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed83b79ea3dd486d0cbd7af0e2eb65c9b90d19034550ccb036ba4011ee0cfed4

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9904105 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9904105v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9904105 · pith_short_12: 5WB3PHVD3VEG · pith_short_16: 5WB3PHVD3VEG2DF5 · pith_short_8: 5WB3PHVD

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/5WB3PHVD3VEG2DF5PLYOF23FZG \
  | 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: ed83b79ea3dd486d0cbd7af0e2eb65c9b90d19034550ccb036ba4011ee0cfed4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a451875fe7289bff6cedd4912b1478b0359b65ba51d9870cf6ef0175d92fdd85",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-04-29T20:30:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "179ebadfae76242b0e19685872545d708912fc64a5e12a5853174be9a506aa8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9904105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}