Pith Number

pith:MOURS2RY

pith:2016:MOURS2RYB3QEVRPYRD6LJGI4E5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random samples of quantum states: Online resources

Berthold-Georg Englert, Boyu Wang, David John Nott, Hui Khoon Ng, Jiangwei Shang, Yi-Lin Seah

arxiv:1612.05180 v2 · 2016-12-15 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MOURS2RYB3QEVRPYRD6LJGI4E5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:47.046588Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63a9196a380ee04ac5f888fcb4991c274964491d1ae2457354556a9a0c6ae943

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05180 · arxiv_version: 1612.05180v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05180 · pith_short_12: MOURS2RYB3QE · pith_short_16: MOURS2RYB3QEVRPY · pith_short_8: MOURS2RY

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/MOURS2RYB3QEVRPYRD6LJGI4E5 \
  | 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: 63a9196a380ee04ac5f888fcb4991c274964491d1ae2457354556a9a0c6ae943

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "609fdef6a096ad76b8fd427d825f973712929785c6abbf4d138343812333416d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-15T18:19:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "429034c21b937a66f283d32de3f3ce6fd3375726034d9f1b2eb32dd33768fc81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}