Pith Number

pith:JTDU4CAJ

pith:2014:JTDU4CAJCNGRPCWL3IV5IQPVYG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Quantifying Complexity with Quantum Mechanics

Daniel R. Terno, Jayne Thompson, Mile Gu, Ryan Tan, Vlatko Vedral

arxiv:1404.6255 v2 · 2014-04-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JTDU4CAJCNGRPCWL3IV5IQPVYG}

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:07.904008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4cc74e0809134d178acbda2bd441f5c18614d69e88ff3c41795a85141beeba9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.6255 · arxiv_version: 1404.6255v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.6255 · pith_short_12: JTDU4CAJCNGR · pith_short_16: JTDU4CAJCNGRPCWL · pith_short_8: JTDU4CAJ

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/JTDU4CAJCNGRPCWL3IV5IQPVYG \
  | 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: 4cc74e0809134d178acbda2bd441f5c18614d69e88ff3c41795a85141beeba9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f586d7b501259c96ece1950a9c4e4e7bd9563cc17bccb31953aa04afa29974ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-24T20:00:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90c0918cd869b9e588fa1b5143907e0afb3a29a0beeccb1581d76323d9cee009"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.6255",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}