Pith Number

pith:HNOAVVWD

pith:2005:HNOAVVWDBJTZSLUPPDXD77O7DX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unambiguous discrimination among quantum operations

Guoming Wang, Mingsheng Ying

arxiv:quant-ph/0512142 v3 · 2005-12-18 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HNOAVVWDBJTZSLUPPDXD77O7DX}

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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	2026-07-04T16:58:14.699473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b5c0ad6c30a67992e8f78ee3ffddf1dd48c36fd138ca1516045d1a9ed185e4f

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0512142 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0512142v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0512142 · pith_short_12: HNOAVVWDBJTZ · pith_short_16: HNOAVVWDBJTZSLUP · pith_short_8: HNOAVVWD

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/HNOAVVWDBJTZSLUPPDXD77O7DX \
  | 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: 3b5c0ad6c30a67992e8f78ee3ffddf1dd48c36fd138ca1516045d1a9ed185e4f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d9ebf60b57a16b340447d3440ae7eb418bf8192c4e372778ebd849e403eaea3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-18T04:17:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc6f0d6f4ca4854e43135d087240b25445c35464803a9de90ec8fdb44b90c023"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0512142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}