Pith Number

pith:UYVJTD45

pith:2026:UYVJTD45A2CZ7JG3UAEALCDINU

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Pareto-optimal work extraction and the thermodynamic cost of precision in quantum information engines

Henning Kirchberg, Jonas Berx, Ted Olander

arxiv:2607.14973 v1 · 2026-07-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UYVJTD45A2CZ7JG3UAEALCDINU}

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4 Citations open

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✓ 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	2026-07-17T01:22:01.770856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a62a998f9d06859fa4dba0080588686d10d96b2ed8755c5a39243230abc24b59

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.14973 · arxiv_version: 2607.14973v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.14973 · pith_short_12: UYVJTD45A2CZ · pith_short_16: UYVJTD45A2CZ7JG3 · pith_short_8: UYVJTD45

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/UYVJTD45A2CZ7JG3UAEALCDINU \
  | 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: a62a998f9d06859fa4dba0080588686d10d96b2ed8755c5a39243230abc24b59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcff02f3131ca585af4aa9e015b8a8c0653d7c1aaec08cfd1e0087b88885fa67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-16T13:28:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7983f7d44754087c321966be979490e38e2fc13c77d080435119089c388e6767"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.14973",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}