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pith:WW6WHMK4

pith:2010:WW6WHMK4RSCT42SJVBGVWFOAPD

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Monotonically convergent optimization in quantum control using Krotov's method

Christiane P. Koch, Daniel Reich, Mamadou Ndong

arxiv:1008.5126 v3 · 2010-08-30 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WW6WHMK4RSCT42SJVBGVWFOAPD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:00:27.074240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5bd63b15c8c853e6a49a84d5b15c078c577c75182544271857cfe4aeb4f4741

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.5126 · arxiv_version: 1008.5126v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.5126 · pith_short_12: WW6WHMK4RSCT · pith_short_16: WW6WHMK4RSCT42SJ · pith_short_8: WW6WHMK4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WW6WHMK4RSCT42SJVBGVWFOAPD \
  | 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: b5bd63b15c8c853e6a49a84d5b15c078c577c75182544271857cfe4aeb4f4741

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9933e468b07b9fa010df221348a1b7c2793c376372bb1e1a13ac51fa7fe3dc67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-30T17:44:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd3d0688fa3f4f81898267ad18a84bafa3ef2061d7a09cda062fa8bda88a08d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.5126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}