Pith Number

pith:PNRFD2YD

pith:2012:PNRFD2YDJF2HPH7CXJIV5BUVGG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A proposal for a scalable universal bosonic simulator using individually trapped ions

Daniel F. V. James, Hoi-Kwan Lau

arxiv:1205.1717 v1 · 2012-05-08 · quant-ph

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:52:25.931235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b6251eb034974779fe2ba515e8695319c52fac991d460c712b5f21f571709d0

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.1717 · arxiv_version: 1205.1717v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.1717 · pith_short_12: PNRFD2YDJF2H · pith_short_16: PNRFD2YDJF2HPH7C · pith_short_8: PNRFD2YD

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/PNRFD2YDJF2HPH7CXJIV5BUVGG \
  | 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: 7b6251eb034974779fe2ba515e8695319c52fac991d460c712b5f21f571709d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ba07be1e1fe06fb8a19dacc1b6ddc4b9bd31dfa0908cc4c4b619cc2a67d9ffd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-08T14:57:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a35acc5a9763160aaf6584b66f5095d19a6910677bc68b4b06b4338817cb408"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.1717",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}