Pith Number

pith:BQNVHBVO

pith:2023:BQNVHBVOQBGNO7TWN5OALEBEKP

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A statistical model for quantum spin and photon number states

Dejan Stojkovic, Guangpeng Xu, Herbert Fotso, Sam Powers, Tim Thomay

arxiv:2304.13535 v2 · 2023-04-21 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQNVHBVOQBGNO7TWN5OALEBEKP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T10:05:39.069835Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c1b5386ae804cd77e766f5c05902453d3c52c7bff4fec2d8c9794ffdbc8dccf

Aliases

arxiv: 2304.13535 · arxiv_version: 2304.13535v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.13535 · pith_short_12: BQNVHBVOQBGN · pith_short_16: BQNVHBVOQBGNO7TW · pith_short_8: BQNVHBVO

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/BQNVHBVOQBGNO7TWN5OALEBEKP \
  | 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: 0c1b5386ae804cd77e766f5c05902453d3c52c7bff4fec2d8c9794ffdbc8dccf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53f161704c59e639534a6c626cc0883120584d75f850f8cdef98936688cd0767",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-04-21T20:30:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a4e862db8d691a90470068ff332030e39891144f1c3f253e582b74f70d45b15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2304.13535",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}