Pith Number

pith:VTZ6ZQLO

pith:2010:VTZ6ZQLOVJ3FIW4UKDTMRGHAVE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Using Quantum Computers for Quantum Simulation

Katherine L Brown, Vivien M Kendon, William J Munro

arxiv:1004.5528 v3 · 2010-04-30 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTZ6ZQLOVJ3FIW4UKDTMRGHAVE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:35:48.940705Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acf3ecc16eaa76545b9450e6c898e0a90918201ce739a0fc7892816d789a449d

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.5528 · arxiv_version: 1004.5528v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.5528 · pith_short_12: VTZ6ZQLOVJ3F · pith_short_16: VTZ6ZQLOVJ3FIW4U · pith_short_8: VTZ6ZQLO

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/VTZ6ZQLOVJ3FIW4UKDTMRGHAVE \
  | 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: acf3ecc16eaa76545b9450e6c898e0a90918201ce739a0fc7892816d789a449d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c543ad40088d4b8541782fb4fef5f3f41a14ca8bd1bc34057a61387f5433a1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-30T13:43:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "639134bcebf81067814e368379736e72dc452b024ed65d857aee9690477ac5f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.5528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}