Pith Number

pith:XIFT4XN4

pith:2016:XIFT4XN4POLE54OVRYMAHOW7KU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High Performance Emulation of Quantum Circuits

Damian S. Steiger, Matthias Troyer, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Thomas H\"aner

arxiv:1604.06460 v1 · 2016-04-21 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIFT4XN4POLE54OVRYMAHOW7KU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:21.443223Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba0b3e5dbc7b964ef1d58e1803badf553c7b507536624ad6f02cb68d64e47bf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.06460 · arxiv_version: 1604.06460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.06460 · pith_short_12: XIFT4XN4POLE · pith_short_16: XIFT4XN4POLE54OV · pith_short_8: XIFT4XN4

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/XIFT4XN4POLE54OVRYMAHOW7KU \
  | 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: ba0b3e5dbc7b964ef1d58e1803badf553c7b507536624ad6f02cb68d64e47bf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93d7eaf48bd8ab62df80b27dfd7280eb3044c204130cb8d8b779d35160e055c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-21T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1081e9d619e173242ca232edf3cb22aa85dc6a0923e998bd87b5c9be35068bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.06460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}