Pith Number

pith:AF6BAUXP

pith:2016:AF6BAUXPXT45GUGRPLKVSO3OJL

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Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements

Juan Pablo Paz, Sebastian Deffner, Wojciech H. Zurek

arxiv:1603.06509 v2 · 2016-03-21 · quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AF6BAUXPXT45GUGRPLKVSO3OJL}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:12.433932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

017c1052efbcf9d350d17ad5593b6e4af968d40bf6cb0addd1999d0621609be7

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.06509 · arxiv_version: 1603.06509v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06509 · pith_short_12: AF6BAUXPXT45 · pith_short_16: AF6BAUXPXT45GUGR · pith_short_8: AF6BAUXP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AF6BAUXPXT45GUGRPLKVSO3OJL \
  | 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: 017c1052efbcf9d350d17ad5593b6e4af968d40bf6cb0addd1999d0621609be7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4f5933c04dd92f6ea85f713d7b3c94837d6d7df07f270515f74d2a5b205b698",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-21T17:34:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be439643b771ca139f63cc076bb7027e76307edb5ffdd6342b882b9013433316"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.06509",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}