Pith Number

pith:X6W3MCPI

pith:2021:X6W3MCPIPMZV7IDISXN4653EG3

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Improving the variational quantum eigensolver using variational adiabatic quantum computing

Dimitar Trenev, Donny Greenberg, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Sarah Mostame, Spencer T. Stober, Stuart M. Harwood, Tanvi P. Gujarati

arxiv:2102.02875 v2 · 2021-02-04 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{X6W3MCPIPMZV7IDISXN4653EG3}

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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	2026-07-05T03:56:45.675928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfadb609e87b335fa06895dbcf776436e68764f9efb85ec73ea96a521ab0c6de

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.02875 · arxiv_version: 2102.02875v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.02875 · pith_short_12: X6W3MCPIPMZV · pith_short_16: X6W3MCPIPMZV7IDI · pith_short_8: X6W3MCPI

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X6W3MCPIPMZV7IDISXN4653EG3 \
  | 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: bfadb609e87b335fa06895dbcf776436e68764f9efb85ec73ea96a521ab0c6de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16fb60b9d7856b4d218de3e1f5c84a2dc887880554db7e83b3e5b5c7ed2a6a4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-04T20:25:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a7359ef45bfc3c013fcb83a023ed7381544f353804801b7483011e4f50c28d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.02875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}