Pith Number

pith:V6BVXIJ6

pith:2023:V6BVXIJ6FCGT3KEWRRBHJZJM2L

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Ansatz-Agnostic Exponential Resource Saving in Variational Quantum Algorithms Using Shallow Shadows

Afrad Basheer, Christopher Ferrie, Sanjiang Li, Yuan Feng

arxiv:2309.04754 v1 · 2023-09-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V6BVXIJ6FCGT3KEWRRBHJZJM2L}

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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	2026-07-05T06:49:08.393062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af835ba13e288d3da8968c4274e52cd2d45316238232b7dfe2c71ee223c764db

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.04754 · arxiv_version: 2309.04754v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.04754 · pith_short_12: V6BVXIJ6FCGT · pith_short_16: V6BVXIJ6FCGT3KEW · pith_short_8: V6BVXIJ6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V6BVXIJ6FCGT3KEWRRBHJZJM2L \
  | 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: af835ba13e288d3da8968c4274e52cd2d45316238232b7dfe2c71ee223c764db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80fff20b226638b91f15594579237713eb660bf65138b7abb49f0012755b3471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-09T11:00:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a12068804404fd27632da0e9f59fccd1e1458267bece9d8da2edea3ed929cce0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.04754",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}