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pith:SJSTPKSO

pith:2014:SJSTPKSOHNSJVGLYSTNGEGE4AA

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$\psi$-epistemic models are exponentially bad at explaining the distinguishability of quantum states

M. S. Leifer

arxiv:1401.7996 v3 · 2014-01-30 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{SJSTPKSOHNSJVGLYSTNGEGE4AA}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:52:57.812335Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

926537aa4e3b649a997894da62189c002d815ba5ffb45a1500d042b8bf1f4baa

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.7996 · arxiv_version: 1401.7996v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.7996 · pith_short_12: SJSTPKSOHNSJ · pith_short_16: SJSTPKSOHNSJVGLY · pith_short_8: SJSTPKSO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SJSTPKSOHNSJVGLYSTNGEGE4AA \
  | 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: 926537aa4e3b649a997894da62189c002d815ba5ffb45a1500d042b8bf1f4baa

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "321b0eb1a5e29be5fc51037767527e199fe0cc13d6c2914df9be1336a4add1df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-30T21:00:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64e83f511d94d827cf5c51de448b369d32c95b646b2f83acf13106fd3b01b6a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.7996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}