Pith Number

pith:WB2WV6DE

pith:1997:WB2WV6DEGY6ILYBRQFKE5WTJMR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measurement and state preparation via ion trap quantum computing

G.J. Milburn, H.M. Wiseman, S. Schneider, W.J. Munro

arxiv:quant-ph/9709042 v1 · 1997-09-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WB2WV6DEGY6ILYBRQFKE5WTJMR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:16.461406Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0756af864363c85e03181544eda69647213d58de7adf84c4c4f390711589db5

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9709042 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9709042v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9709042 · pith_short_12: WB2WV6DEGY6I · pith_short_16: WB2WV6DEGY6ILYBR · pith_short_8: WB2WV6DE

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/WB2WV6DEGY6ILYBRQFKE5WTJMR \
  | 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: b0756af864363c85e03181544eda69647213d58de7adf84c4c4f390711589db5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6131d0350560393ff344961071fa8c93f60dc135e0b31921b315ddb797547975",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-19T05:38:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13d68a6efd0ca6aba56677231cc88ba36711be35635de5ba7f352f5694492fee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9709042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}