Pith Number

pith:6IDYQBX4

pith:2017:6IDYQBX4KCTOQQ6HVIQ2GM2B67

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The second law of thermodynamics at the microscopic scale

Thibaut Josset

arxiv:1702.07706 v1 · 2017-02-24 · quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6IDYQBX4KCTOQQ6HVIQ2GM2B67}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:36.809278Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2078806fc50a6e843c7aa21a33341f7fca592a801933b65dd9b9d6986a8429d

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07706 · arxiv_version: 1702.07706v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07706 · pith_short_12: 6IDYQBX4KCTO · pith_short_16: 6IDYQBX4KCTOQQ6H · pith_short_8: 6IDYQBX4

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/6IDYQBX4KCTOQQ6HVIQ2GM2B67 \
  | 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: f2078806fc50a6e843c7aa21a33341f7fca592a801933b65dd9b9d6986a8429d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "058b65966063eb675466854917b5ddb1a772429ba55f7bc1011af895b6455c6d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-24T18:55:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "512565e9a30647fdbc525957add18c284e1e3c355fa5aea9f8ef5877c431e37a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07706",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}