Pith Number

pith:CTVB6ZTF

pith:2010:CTVB6ZTF2E7VWDOPBYZMH6GIOR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Quantum Field as a Quantum Computer

Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

arxiv:1012.0756 v1 · 2010-12-02 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CTVB6ZTF2E7VWDOPBYZMH6GIOR}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:09.522650Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14ea1f6665d13f5b0dcf0e32c3f8c8747c7df138420248d14a319ccdbe6cbbf8

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.0756 · arxiv_version: 1012.0756v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.0756 · pith_short_12: CTVB6ZTF2E7V · pith_short_16: CTVB6ZTF2E7VWDOP · pith_short_8: CTVB6ZTF

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/CTVB6ZTF2E7VWDOPBYZMH6GIOR \
  | 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: 14ea1f6665d13f5b0dcf0e32c3f8c8747c7df138420248d14a319ccdbe6cbbf8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06aa56ca5a19b53dcd55df7f2ccabd576ac8b2d338e8be576e7da32336a9d3a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-02T13:12:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8de97d87340dcebe537504d1d2c9bc2787ce1c2b962b3630eff3c09bcd8be4a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.0756",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}