Pith Number

pith:D7Z2L3QN

pith:2026:D7Z2L3QNUFQCXDVT4JSJHBZNG4

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Correlation versus Causation in Quantum Criticality

Conrad Wichmann, Ruben Verresen, Ryan Thorngren

arxiv:2608.12770 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.stat-mech · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D7Z2L3QNUFQCXDVT4JSJHBZNG4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-14T00:47:43.623783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ff3a5ee0da1602b8eb3e26493872d3716d14e597d1d6214eb7a59e38ca5b11a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12770 · arxiv_version: 2608.12770v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12770 · pith_short_12: D7Z2L3QNUFQC · pith_short_16: D7Z2L3QNUFQCXDVT · pith_short_8: D7Z2L3QN

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/D7Z2L3QNUFQCXDVT4JSJHBZNG4 \
  | 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: 1ff3a5ee0da1602b8eb3e26493872d3716d14e597d1d6214eb7a59e38ca5b11a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f78cdb007fc6ad14b09177a1a1a7ef7e196dfd28264f592d57a073682e74ff8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.str-el",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T03:27:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59b1fd95f5ba3e7973da27191a492b200ec095c5e46ccd11b32072f1f97ae688"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12770",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}