Pith Number

pith:5ZU2VSRI

pith:1999:5ZU2VSRIL5FNTZ755LMRDJEQGF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Statistical Mechanics on a Quantum Computer

A.H. Hams, H. De Raedt, K. Michielsen, K. Saito, S. Miyashita

arxiv:quant-ph/9911037 v1 · 1999-11-09 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5ZU2VSRIL5FNTZ755LMRDJEQGF}

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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	2026-07-04T14:47:29.605688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee69aaca285f4ad9e7fdead911a4903154633c160e66d1021e70ce7c37555fff

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9911037 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9911037v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9911037 · pith_short_12: 5ZU2VSRIL5FN · pith_short_16: 5ZU2VSRIL5FNTZ75 · pith_short_8: 5ZU2VSRI

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/5ZU2VSRIL5FNTZ755LMRDJEQGF \
  | 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: ee69aaca285f4ad9e7fdead911a4903154633c160e66d1021e70ce7c37555fff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65177fd78d1f21520566a3659d891ace3b2a388ea14600c9779aa35c27b9bebe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-11-09T14:33:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b748de151d5cc6684eae91652dbbf686b8ad1328e8c838174e37a614f7b16a35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9911037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}