Pith Number

pith:C6RSX22H

pith:2012:C6RSX22H3EOGLIAKEHVDUBMVUW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum walks with memory - goldfish, elephants and wise old men

Alexei Gilchrist, Gavin K. Brennen, Peter P. Rohde

arxiv:1212.4540 v1 · 2012-12-18 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6RSX22H3EOGLIAKEHVDUBMVUW}

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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	2026-05-18T03:26:22.759910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17a32beb47d91c65a00a21ea3a0595a5a73d7544362b8c2f5cad15854bc3fc45

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4540 · arxiv_version: 1212.4540v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4540 · pith_short_12: C6RSX22H3EOG · pith_short_16: C6RSX22H3EOGLIAK · pith_short_8: C6RSX22H

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/C6RSX22H3EOGLIAKEHVDUBMVUW \
  | 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: 17a32beb47d91c65a00a21ea3a0595a5a73d7544362b8c2f5cad15854bc3fc45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca2d232f3127f0df6df6e65a92c871de64af4cf118b6e0fa9f268c807d6f433f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-18T23:53:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a2a4849ee6eb7941585d1f4375764fbfa15e31be4c3b1b16f9989a27f312c6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4540",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}