Pith Number

pith:RVATPAPX

pith:2017:RVATPAPXNZV6OKXYIEV3EKHRZK

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Co-Processors for Quantum Devices

Alastair Kay

arxiv:1710.04932 v4 · 2017-10-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVATPAPXNZV6OKXYIEV3EKHRZK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:37.235521Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d413781f76e6be72af8412bb228f1ca83d7ec9a1928f8ac8df31f148b419851

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.04932 · arxiv_version: 1710.04932v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04932 · pith_short_12: RVATPAPXNZV6 · pith_short_16: RVATPAPXNZV6OKXY · pith_short_8: RVATPAPX

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/RVATPAPXNZV6OKXYIEV3EKHRZK \
  | 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: 8d413781f76e6be72af8412bb228f1ca83d7ec9a1928f8ac8df31f148b419851

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44c58269cd5bb433cf24242957ad74a9090b14e3c7766ee427fe469a734527df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-13T14:12:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ae7456f7c400148f663e1d42d660e5c5d3fccd547757ff4d0d944f842dd3409"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.04932",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}