Pith Number

pith:W2DNHGXC

pith:2016:W2DNHGXCMT734JIAGADK2MSPXL

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Alternative framework for quantifying coherence

Da-Jian Zhang, D. M. Tong, G. F. Xu, Xiao-Dong Yu

arxiv:1606.03181 v2 · 2016-06-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2DNHGXCMT734JIAGADK2MSPXL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:25.959207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b686d39ae264ffbe25003006ad324fbad2a0deddbc9705f12a17438b29731494

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.03181 · arxiv_version: 1606.03181v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.03181 · pith_short_12: W2DNHGXCMT73 · pith_short_16: W2DNHGXCMT734JIA · pith_short_8: W2DNHGXC

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/W2DNHGXCMT734JIAGADK2MSPXL \
  | 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: b686d39ae264ffbe25003006ad324fbad2a0deddbc9705f12a17438b29731494

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "43470e0d9a81f002dfc6184249a7c10ffd5b63582d4999f7d95e0c6e022c3900",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-10T05:21:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85e5c43d42ac9f5274b717d8ad3bbcee5ae5ffdd5a899857ec70b8b23658026f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.03181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}