Pith Number

pith:RQOQWN6M

pith:2026:RQOQWN6MVO2K4CUB7RUG44CZ2T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Approximate Optimization via Noise-Directed Adaptive Warm-Starting

Daniel J. Egger, Davide Venturelli, Filip B. Maciejewski, George Pennington, Oscar Wallis, Sebastian Brandhofer, Stefan Woerner, Stuart Hadfield

arxiv:2607.09368 v1 · 2026-07-10 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQOQWN6MVO2K4CUB7RUG44CZ2T}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-13T01:19:06.451393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c1d0b37ccabb4ae0a81fc686e7059d4d2d7c15246b6aa71c91891b3927fd786

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.09368 · arxiv_version: 2607.09368v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.09368 · pith_short_12: RQOQWN6MVO2K · pith_short_16: RQOQWN6MVO2K4CUB · pith_short_8: RQOQWN6M

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/RQOQWN6MVO2K4CUB7RUG44CZ2T \
  | 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: 8c1d0b37ccabb4ae0a81fc686e7059d4d2d7c15246b6aa71c91891b3927fd786

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9637e3b1be2fa64f89fe571f758a9a2141ac4c94467bb7003188abe8ace5115",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-10T12:46:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48f4b54b185bcafbc427d4eb7037c426ba33f85d40b78470a1f8feb5b3c3a010"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.09368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}