Pith Number

pith:TLSMQWEA

pith:2026:TLSMQWEAELIKRL6RNWF3OXFQAF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Research-Informed Module on Quantum Superposition for Rapid Classroom Adoption

Boris Kiefer

arxiv:2605.23976 v1 · 2026-05-13 · physics.ed-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TLSMQWEAELIKRL6RNWF3OXFQAF}

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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	2026-05-26T00:02:24.794327Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ae4c8588022d0a8afd16d8bb75cb001604eba3333b4f4b80128d4bb07c72cff

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23976 · arxiv_version: 2605.23976v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23976 · pith_short_12: TLSMQWEAELIK · pith_short_16: TLSMQWEAELIKRL6R · pith_short_8: TLSMQWEA

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/TLSMQWEAELIKRL6RNWF3OXFQAF \
  | 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: 9ae4c8588022d0a8afd16d8bb75cb001604eba3333b4f4b80128d4bb07c72cff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45dfe96f6d2f7c95aa3c64e519dfb60284aefe16011f6bea940091f25407d1c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ed-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-13T16:35:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c9dbc8edb777c9cd7bf59caf47bd2ad2f5836dcdd87863a6015550404873bf0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}