Pith Number

pith:XZFYTBAV

pith:2014:XZFYTBAVXOTZDUI4EIP5ILUA7I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A short note on passivity, complete passivity and virtual temperatures

Nicolas Brunner, Paul Skrzypczyk, Ralph Silva

arxiv:1412.5485 v2 · 2014-12-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZFYTBAVXOTZDUI4EIP5ILUA7I}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:25:18.344199Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be4b898415bba791d11c221fd42e80fa05e6aec50c1de9e1da84780f8ddc3439

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.5485 · arxiv_version: 1412.5485v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.5485 · pith_short_12: XZFYTBAVXOTZ · pith_short_16: XZFYTBAVXOTZDUI4 · pith_short_8: XZFYTBAV

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/XZFYTBAVXOTZDUI4EIP5ILUA7I \
  | 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: be4b898415bba791d11c221fd42e80fa05e6aec50c1de9e1da84780f8ddc3439

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "55ab636a23d328fe3972c6a88c594eee228b4a4cc84f099e8362d1977be3deb5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-17T17:07:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2900888e1cb77c9450ad277c72d67356de9a1b384d10bcaf96979c35a649f3bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.5485",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}