Pith Number

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pith:2021:UINYEEOFNLRQMRPMMVZ6MIAH5C

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Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Enhanced Variational Quantum Algorithms

Khadijeh Najafi, Omar Shehab, Susanne F. Yelin, Taylor L. Patti

arxiv:2112.02190 v2 · 2021-12-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UINYEEOFNLRQMRPMMVZ6MIAH5C}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:53:13.366221Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a21b8211c56ae30645ec6573e62007e89ae7435485e38ead344add650843f41d

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.02190 · arxiv_version: 2112.02190v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.02190 · pith_short_12: UINYEEOFNLRQ · pith_short_16: UINYEEOFNLRQMRPM · pith_short_8: UINYEEOF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UINYEEOFNLRQMRPMMVZ6MIAH5C \
  | 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: a21b8211c56ae30645ec6573e62007e89ae7435485e38ead344add650843f41d

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dbe7f59e04d879b8b6bcff3a716e110e5ec18e1ebbd9956553974d8da52a9d53",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-03T23:03:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04c8e0420e066c896aa0bed1116a60903afc6e5d162c2966d0205db6a7bf288d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.02190",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}