Pith Number

pith:7AD4KIOP

pith:1999:7AD4KIOPBKOR5MGUIANQ7XDQHH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ground State Quantum Computation

Ari Mizel, Marvin L. Cohen, M. W. Mitchell

arxiv:quant-ph/9908035 v1 · 1999-08-11 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7AD4KIOPBKOR5MGUIANQ7XDQHH}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:24:19.119309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f807c521cf0a9d1eb0d4401b0fdc7039c346eae630be2ebdfd26aed03043f834

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9908035 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9908035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9908035 · pith_short_12: 7AD4KIOPBKOR · pith_short_16: 7AD4KIOPBKOR5MGU · pith_short_8: 7AD4KIOP

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/7AD4KIOPBKOR5MGUIANQ7XDQHH \
  | 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: f807c521cf0a9d1eb0d4401b0fdc7039c346eae630be2ebdfd26aed03043f834

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a41c8af86716f59357e6f5347eceee325a59efce0fea8967b2ade3e49fe1bb4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-11T21:15:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d065a8568a52bb71fa34791a3bfa822429727a9d6c5439d21ef46a1fe30cc32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9908035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}