Pith Number

pith:OVPBMO7Z

pith:2010:OVPBMO7Z3MLYKOW4FVEKJP4SCI

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Inferring the Gibbs state of a small quantum system

Jochen Rau

arxiv:1008.3643 v2 · 2010-08-21 · quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OVPBMO7Z3MLYKOW4FVEKJP4SCI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:19:03.294098Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

755e163bf9db17853adc2d48a4bf92120367a66ec8cfa8bff5920aed35fbb146

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.3643 · arxiv_version: 1008.3643v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.3643 · pith_short_12: OVPBMO7Z3MLY · pith_short_16: OVPBMO7Z3MLYKOW4 · pith_short_8: OVPBMO7Z

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/OVPBMO7Z3MLYKOW4FVEKJP4SCI \
  | 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: 755e163bf9db17853adc2d48a4bf92120367a66ec8cfa8bff5920aed35fbb146

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7875c67fbc2c645f3895739ea5b662b16200c90b9b42ff68bb6828aa46c87c8d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-21T16:28:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d40fa62d92fb558863ec6331d5ec3122761a164966aaeb80a485a30ae811c81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.3643",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}