Pith Number

pith:Y3WYVUOX

pith:2026:Y3WYVUOXY2SNYDTMCBAU4GY6ZV

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How To Track Qubits Through Space and Time (Or: Sailing in a Quantum Boat)

Henry Yuen, James Bartusek, Leo Orshansky, Zikuan Huang

arxiv:2605.30732 v1 · 2026-05-29 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y3WYVUOXY2SNYDTMCBAU4GY6ZV}

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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	2026-06-01T01:03:13.071644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6ed8ad1d7c6a4dc0e6c10414e1b1ecd638bf5597b665a134f4e342270e82bb6

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30732 · arxiv_version: 2605.30732v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30732 · pith_short_12: Y3WYVUOXY2SN · pith_short_16: Y3WYVUOXY2SNYDTM · pith_short_8: Y3WYVUOX

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/Y3WYVUOXY2SNYDTMCBAU4GY6ZV \
  | 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: c6ed8ad1d7c6a4dc0e6c10414e1b1ecd638bf5597b665a134f4e342270e82bb6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f74941fe63af3cbfff0b15d2b7391f7ab009e524c0d48d54c5dec1608731609",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-29T01:51:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26cbf80b9697e8901abf82212a9c28b7b18a39ac1b00e7f04f65d94587202b91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30732",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}