Pith Number

pith:KVOO3Z6O

pith:2012:KVOO3Z6OVMOM36X353IR5GJY7W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lifetime of topological quantum memories in thermal environment

Abbas Al-Shimary, James R. Wootton, Jiannis K. Pachos

arxiv:1209.2940 v1 · 2012-09-13 · quant-ph · math-ph · math.MP

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVOO3Z6OVMOM36X353IR5GJY7W}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:54:29.434759Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

555cede7ceab1ccdfafbeed11e9938fda76d6db6f7b9111ba5b89213e890be04

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.2940 · arxiv_version: 1209.2940v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.2940 · pith_short_12: KVOO3Z6OVMOM · pith_short_16: KVOO3Z6OVMOM36X3 · pith_short_8: KVOO3Z6O

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/KVOO3Z6OVMOM36X353IR5GJY7W \
  | 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: 555cede7ceab1ccdfafbeed11e9938fda76d6db6f7b9111ba5b89213e890be04

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53ca28a889b5df114efffade8370a03d3e743ccbf88e7810c719cb909738a78a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-13T16:02:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dfd3185b52f73fbcf7299d7b87b5a60bc1e23934f2f1f53a5108a98dc6dc874d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.2940",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}