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pith:EGZFSRXU

pith:2017:EGZFSRXUUGMBAYBZT2L7MVZXUF
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A quantum Szilard engine without heat from a thermal reservoir

Janet Anders, M. Hamed Mohammady

arxiv:1706.00938 v2 · 2017-06-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EGZFSRXUUGMBAYBZT2L7MVZXUF}

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T00:30:28.208729Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21b25946f4a1981060399e97f65737a1638c0c12021be8a62a2c7e27896dd458

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.00938 · arxiv_version: 1706.00938v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.00938 · pith_short_12: EGZFSRXUUGMB · pith_short_16: EGZFSRXUUGMBAYBZ · pith_short_8: EGZFSRXU
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EGZFSRXUUGMBAYBZT2L7MVZXUF \
  | 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: 21b25946f4a1981060399e97f65737a1638c0c12021be8a62a2c7e27896dd458
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b797c82403c2ec8c17752db3525c9bef316c09dc8c99b10d3b7b999586947caf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-03T12:11:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cb16cc5fd4eb818e0d933dac300bb9023b4e91855568e5a1c4efe442359abef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.00938",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}