Pith Number

pith:GT3TGTW5

pith:2017:GT3TGTW5JYL53Q7BP2ZUDAWLSV

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The modified trace distance of coherence is constant on most pure states

Chi-Kwong Li, Nathaniel Johnston, Sarah Plosker

arxiv:1708.06967 v1 · 2017-08-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GT3TGTW5JYL53Q7BP2ZUDAWLSV}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:48.530601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34f7334edd4e17ddc3e17eb34182cb9541153ce92810cc722d670b38b1d85ef1

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06967 · arxiv_version: 1708.06967v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06967 · pith_short_12: GT3TGTW5JYL5 · pith_short_16: GT3TGTW5JYL53Q7B · pith_short_8: GT3TGTW5

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/GT3TGTW5JYL53Q7BP2ZUDAWLSV \
  | 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: 34f7334edd4e17ddc3e17eb34182cb9541153ce92810cc722d670b38b1d85ef1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9b60f4a5be98b8f5435317f3280f02b4923367652f91d4feb8f746992a1dcaf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-23T11:59:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26729dba223b5b5645d293fbb0a1631d370e01754df0091ead74ad97771c425a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06967",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}