Pith Number

pith:RCVBE4YJ

pith:2016:RCVBE4YJNPCKNNHNH67CLPQB6B

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ProjectQ: An Open Source Software Framework for Quantum Computing

Damian S. Steiger, Matthias Troyer, Thomas H\"aner

arxiv:1612.08091 v2 · 2016-12-23 · quant-ph · cs.ET · cs.PL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RCVBE4YJNPCKNNHNH67CLPQB6B}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:43.081469Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88aa1273096bc4a6b4ed3fbe25be01f07f465629f866f5c48a2732fa9e29daae

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.08091 · arxiv_version: 1612.08091v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.08091 · pith_short_12: RCVBE4YJNPCK · pith_short_16: RCVBE4YJNPCKNNHN · pith_short_8: RCVBE4YJ

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/RCVBE4YJNPCKNNHNH67CLPQB6B \
  | 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: 88aa1273096bc4a6b4ed3fbe25be01f07f465629f866f5c48a2732fa9e29daae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cff2c2df153743eaa03c59b9c14ca8e9efa1cc5435843e17d07569bb2582552",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET",
      "cs.PL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-23T21:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5418f6ad0db25c3a90030567bfd31f46a7638a672d0834de9448bfe42774889c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.08091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}