Pith Number

pith:VNV6NZXL

pith:2017:VNV6NZXLCRHMR6SRCR3LGZIMII

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Matrix product states for topological phases with parafermions

Guang-Ming Zhang, Wen-Tao Xu

arxiv:1703.01800 v3 · 2017-03-06 · cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.stat-mech · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNV6NZXLCRHMR6SRCR3LGZIMII}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:23.373840Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab6be6e6eb144ec8fa511476b3650c423da1841be15d7f2907303465abcb87ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.01800 · arxiv_version: 1703.01800v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.01800 · pith_short_12: VNV6NZXLCRHM · pith_short_16: VNV6NZXLCRHMR6SR · pith_short_8: VNV6NZXL

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/VNV6NZXLCRHMR6SRCR3LGZIMII \
  | 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: ab6be6e6eb144ec8fa511476b3650c423da1841be15d7f2907303465abcb87ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5e1dcd9248b64d9db880300e9909c775c8ba84afa0d02bd540b78af0fa5fa97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.str-el",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-06T10:23:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5417d7c54cb4ec8de4b84a6f238bc202ef28c2a1ff4120a0f0761f0b6a87d56e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.01800",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}