Pith Number

pith:HQ6QFJ7S

pith:2023:HQ6QFJ7SLS4VG44IY33EXF4V3O

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Wavefunction branching: when you can't tell pure states from mixed states

Ian P. McCulloch, Jordan K. Taylor

arxiv:2308.04494 v4 · 2023-08-08 · quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HQ6QFJ7SLS4VG44IY33EXF4V3O}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:39:08.574968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c3d02a7f25cb9537388c6f64b9795dbb0ea9671b06d5b5d9cafee73419dc49c

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.04494 · arxiv_version: 2308.04494v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.04494 · pith_short_12: HQ6QFJ7SLS4V · pith_short_16: HQ6QFJ7SLS4VG44I · pith_short_8: HQ6QFJ7S

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/HQ6QFJ7SLS4VG44IY33EXF4V3O \
  | 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: 3c3d02a7f25cb9537388c6f64b9795dbb0ea9671b06d5b5d9cafee73419dc49c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31386b70652003baf8674661a3656a3e758778ea46fb2e67aff95af121aaee09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-08T18:02:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93eb209243dcc159be60a3004385878fe62358a6cac215f92e6f69a37eb0903d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.04494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}