Pith Number

pith:WSBN4ZKR

pith:2016:WSBN4ZKRPHMPIZHAYPQLPKKUHJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fragile states are better for quantum metrology

Jayne Thompson, Kavan Modi, Lucas C. C\'eleri, Mile Gu

arxiv:1608.01443 v1 · 2016-08-04 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSBN4ZKRPHMPIZHAYPQLPKKUHJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:09:52.428748Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b482de655179d8f464e0c3e0b7a9543a5c3397aedabdd6b1c087e54da65480ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.01443 · arxiv_version: 1608.01443v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.01443 · pith_short_12: WSBN4ZKRPHMP · pith_short_16: WSBN4ZKRPHMPIZHA · pith_short_8: WSBN4ZKR

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/WSBN4ZKRPHMPIZHAYPQLPKKUHJ \
  | 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: b482de655179d8f464e0c3e0b7a9543a5c3397aedabdd6b1c087e54da65480ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72266f0f71b5b6d8b85f8a081c0d297fb25aaf9f57bd8ef400d0c70502cffb07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-04T07:11:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97a14178548219d71b1ab2db948d5c940a639bb376356b7514222c48ed3f4c55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.01443",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}