Pith Number

pith:WYW2U2ML

pith:2020:WYW2U2MLEXTCSXF72BYW3MTNJJ

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Calculating transition amplitudes by variational quantum deflation

Kosuke Mitarai, Nathan Earnest, Qi Gao, Takahiro Yamamoto, Takao Kobayashi, Yohei Ibe, Yuya O. Nakagawa

arxiv:2002.11724 v2 · 2020-02-26 · quant-ph · cond-mat.str-el · physics.chem-ph

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\pithnumber{WYW2U2MLEXTCSXF72BYW3MTNJJ}

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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	2026-07-05T04:01:54.316328Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b62daa698b25e6295cbfd0716db26d4a734ea6cdd10b36b329d22db06424de23

Aliases

arxiv: 2002.11724 · arxiv_version: 2002.11724v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.11724 · pith_short_12: WYW2U2MLEXTC · pith_short_16: WYW2U2MLEXTCSXF7 · pith_short_8: WYW2U2ML

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WYW2U2MLEXTCSXF72BYW3MTNJJ \
  | 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: b62daa698b25e6295cbfd0716db26d4a734ea6cdd10b36b329d22db06424de23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54f196d1bf9586918b6d9faaeda5bb2600db135ea0ee51331a7d051f7430ac66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.str-el",
      "physics.chem-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-02-26T19:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f12a3e23a368e4f3ae5ff9bfe033b0421b12ddd5e5abb19ebea082a487f96ad8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2002.11724",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}