Pith Number

pith:B5UH3YOJ

pith:2012:B5UH3YOJFO4LXMB36VF2D3NFIV

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Search on a Fractal Lattice using a Quantum Random Walk

Apoorva Patel, K. S. Raghunathan

arxiv:1203.3950 v2 · 2012-03-18 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5UH3YOJFO4LXMB36VF2D3NFIV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:06.355217Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f687de1c92bb8bbb03bf54ba1eda54572a081e7499fc7e7189166cc7d367503

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.3950 · arxiv_version: 1203.3950v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.3950 · pith_short_12: B5UH3YOJFO4L · pith_short_16: B5UH3YOJFO4LXMB3 · pith_short_8: B5UH3YOJ

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/B5UH3YOJFO4LXMB36VF2D3NFIV \
  | 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: 0f687de1c92bb8bbb03bf54ba1eda54572a081e7499fc7e7189166cc7d367503

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58dee0e4ec74d230e5e9180a9ac7386f1d228b19df9916fbc4582ca5f9ea6037",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-18T14:01:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20267f320caf25c625cfa7c33c79ee9da689ab1ec1b7d88f6f1994bbb8493318"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.3950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}