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pith:Q7H7MKLZ

pith:2012:Q7H7MKLZ2FH2KJTIPOUYDZK5TV
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Positivity in the presence of initial system-environment correlation

Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik, C\'esar A. Rodr\'iguez-Rosario, Kavan Modi

arxiv:1203.5209 v2 · 2012-03-23 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{Q7H7MKLZ2FH2KJTIPOUYDZK5TV}

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First computed 2026-05-18T03:38:23.637641Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87cff62979d14fa526687ba981e55d9d7727b62c34d233cde2f70129bb196d4d

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.5209 · arxiv_version: 1203.5209v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.5209 · pith_short_12: Q7H7MKLZ2FH2 · pith_short_16: Q7H7MKLZ2FH2KJTI · pith_short_8: Q7H7MKLZ
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q7H7MKLZ2FH2KJTIPOUYDZK5TV \
  | 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: 87cff62979d14fa526687ba981e55d9d7727b62c34d233cde2f70129bb196d4d
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d88bd5c119c19408d018100f8d9a2bb4e9a0251f10336da53e8c8e215df142c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-23T11:00:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ff8b23d9b5154b14f008daeb25d8f792af7fe2ab1fafb51ab9d13caecfd05f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.5209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}