Pith Number

pith:W3MEQV2C

pith:2026:W3MEQV2CCXWRSPF7F3XCYWGYQA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A 0.651-approximation to quantum Max Cut via Rydberg atoms

Felix Huber, Matthieu Saubanere, Tom\'as Crosta

arxiv:2606.27224 v1 · 2026-06-25 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W3MEQV2CCXWRSPF7F3XCYWGYQA}

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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	2026-06-26T01:16:15.545944Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6d848574215ed193cbf2eee2c58d8801a94756881d4a7afd9d668fffabde477

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.27224 · arxiv_version: 2606.27224v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.27224 · pith_short_12: W3MEQV2CCXWR · pith_short_16: W3MEQV2CCXWRSPF7 · pith_short_8: W3MEQV2C

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/W3MEQV2CCXWRSPF7F3XCYWGYQA \
  | 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: b6d848574215ed193cbf2eee2c58d8801a94756881d4a7afd9d668fffabde477

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "423ce6f55dac4ad5b2f67e634934d507ea365f5b9e05d008e750bae374034f08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-25T16:13:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a54a0cefe1919415e7a3fa62cbd20b801a2233f741d8fcddedcd750648b293d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.27224",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}