Pith Number

pith:TWB6X7WA

pith:2010:TWB6X7WABY2KZ3YQ4WARGQRZUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sequential Strong Measurements and Heat Vision

David Perez-Garcia, Miguel Navascues

arxiv:1010.4983 v2 · 2010-10-24 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TWB6X7WABY2KZ3YQ4WARGQRZUI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:04:59.107514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d83ebfec00e34acef10e581134239a2178d2b6797f9ea5b4a9c701394f4ea52

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.4983 · arxiv_version: 1010.4983v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.4983 · pith_short_12: TWB6X7WABY2K · pith_short_16: TWB6X7WABY2KZ3YQ · pith_short_8: TWB6X7WA

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/TWB6X7WABY2KZ3YQ4WARGQRZUI \
  | 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: 9d83ebfec00e34acef10e581134239a2178d2b6797f9ea5b4a9c701394f4ea52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b365714d04327c4d4a0227aee12acb896892f13c156be863db1f2a2e5243b82f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-24T17:41:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4bca5ac0d35dae9be92b98444790f887ef2dd56e159a3370e8c92f2f80333f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.4983",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}