Pith Number

pith:QBCOPP7F

pith:2017:QBCOPP7FY5ELYCI64ZXM2O2OC7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

First detected arrival of a quantum walker on an infinite line

David A. Kessler, Eli Barkai, Felix Thiel

arxiv:1706.05168 v2 · 2017-06-16 · cond-mat.stat-mech · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QBCOPP7FY5ELYCI64ZXM2O2OC7}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:52.408075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8044e7bfe5c748bc091ee66ecd3b4e17dbaef53e8d753c0ab703cfe0fe63c044

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05168 · arxiv_version: 1706.05168v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05168 · pith_short_12: QBCOPP7FY5EL · pith_short_16: QBCOPP7FY5ELYCI6 · pith_short_8: QBCOPP7F

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/QBCOPP7FY5ELYCI64ZXM2O2OC7 \
  | 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: 8044e7bfe5c748bc091ee66ecd3b4e17dbaef53e8d753c0ab703cfe0fe63c044

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "577407cac18f73f704a28aff48f056a043a68353f5b9f35ebf7894448aad24dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-16T07:55:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7884cb83b3cadc604b5326fdd06033554578f2b10641c91faed55d683746e96"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}