Pith Number

pith:N5K3NMK2

pith:2017:N5K3NMK2QOM3YCV33B4AOW6QPS

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Optimal shortcut approach based on an easily obtained intermediate Hamiltonian

Jie Song, Shi-Biao Zheng, Yan Xia, Ye-Hong Chen, Zhi-Cheng Shi

arxiv:1705.08578 v2 · 2017-05-24 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{N5K3NMK2QOM3YCV33B4AOW6QPS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:41:58.844340Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f55b6b15a8399bc0abbd878075bd07ca4b655e6f058608b1d69f2098386b10a

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08578 · arxiv_version: 1705.08578v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08578 · pith_short_12: N5K3NMK2QOM3 · pith_short_16: N5K3NMK2QOM3YCV3 · pith_short_8: N5K3NMK2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N5K3NMK2QOM3YCV33B4AOW6QPS \
  | 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: 6f55b6b15a8399bc0abbd878075bd07ca4b655e6f058608b1d69f2098386b10a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e64936a3d7134cc5049b9d3f6d5477e891d99f0af6b97fe5e94728d09e4879d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-24T01:29:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5fa4a4dc7ca03d2a1c0720c5010f9190b89fb8f5805583e7875cccd3f935638"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}