Pith Number

pith:JYKDIAK3

pith:2016:JYKDIAK3AOW7YBPNTMJINBYLLR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Erasure without work in an asymmetric, double-well potential

John Bechhoefer, Mom\v{c}ilo Gavrilov

arxiv:1607.02458 v2 · 2016-07-08 · cond-mat.stat-mech · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JYKDIAK3AOW7YBPNTMJINBYLLR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:24.473945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4e1434015b03adfc05ed9b1286870b5c456fdcd7b08dbbd9aeca65c47faab508

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.02458 · arxiv_version: 1607.02458v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.02458 · pith_short_12: JYKDIAK3AOW7 · pith_short_16: JYKDIAK3AOW7YBPN · pith_short_8: JYKDIAK3

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/JYKDIAK3AOW7YBPNTMJINBYLLR \
  | 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: 4e1434015b03adfc05ed9b1286870b5c456fdcd7b08dbbd9aeca65c47faab508

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ccfb869657218906773ee9fbf7bf6dfa05627a1f0306b5a704b0e0e7161528c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-08T17:18:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efe358b520136ac54ff2ae699443a372c67a47b1f8898370c153835c1f912c93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.02458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}