Pith Number

pith:JJJVT2V6

pith:1997:JJJVT2V6MXGO2OTTQA427GSQS4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Inference, Distinguishability of Quantum States, And Quantum Entanglement

K. Jacobs, M.B. Plenio, P. L. Knight (Imperial College London), V. Vedral

arxiv:quant-ph/9703025 v2 · 1997-03-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JJJVT2V6MXGO2OTTQA427GSQS4}

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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	2026-07-04T16:06:28.663621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a5359eabe65cced3a738039af9a509734d35b5d5e4559b366c4e9962c5d752d

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9703025 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9703025v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9703025 · pith_short_12: JJJVT2V6MXGO · pith_short_16: JJJVT2V6MXGO2OTT · pith_short_8: JJJVT2V6

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/JJJVT2V6MXGO2OTTQA427GSQS4 \
  | 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: 4a5359eabe65cced3a738039af9a509734d35b5d5e4559b366c4e9962c5d752d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01891475cf6e2c56f61d976c13f32904f4fada4e4c8a47e83d5ac4bdcbb0b3ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-15T14:42:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4ac4893a1981f25dfaf14b7bcdb552fa6e6fd0e7074fa5466633f1326331c7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9703025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}