Pith Number

pith:WO4UBCQP

pith:2010:WO4UBCQPKOKW2ITOVVBUNHW2FQ

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Equilibration of quantum systems and subsystems

Anthony J. Short

arxiv:1012.4622 v1 · 2010-12-21 · quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WO4UBCQPKOKW2ITOVVBUNHW2FQ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:04:19.349717Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3b9408a0f53956d226ead43469eda2c01c44a2847e84622c44a54fa783e8893

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.4622 · arxiv_version: 1012.4622v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.4622 · pith_short_12: WO4UBCQPKOKW · pith_short_16: WO4UBCQPKOKW2ITO · pith_short_8: WO4UBCQP

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/WO4UBCQPKOKW2ITOVVBUNHW2FQ \
  | 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: b3b9408a0f53956d226ead43469eda2c01c44a2847e84622c44a54fa783e8893

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9590045bb5f58e72c53fab1fe6366135dac73105fb232fe49c24b5b7c70c0f97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-21T11:51:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f8f77733402ac2a46771bec8fbe1f3bf9bbf2168bd8bf2abc77a77f0b519130"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.4622",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}