Pith Number

pith:YVXBP4CA

pith:2021:YVXBP4CAGYNKM4WMVTFRAUTC2K

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Nearly optimal quantum algorithm for generating the ground state of a free quantum field theory

Barry C. Sanders, Dominic W. Berry, Gavin K. Brennen, Mohsen Bagherimehrab, Yuval R. Sanders

arxiv:2110.05708 v2 · 2021-10-12 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:36:08.920450Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c56e17f040361aa672ccaccb105262d29a14e450f792b5d6fcd3e7539006b1ea

Aliases

arxiv: 2110.05708 · arxiv_version: 2110.05708v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.05708 · pith_short_12: YVXBP4CAGYNK · pith_short_16: YVXBP4CAGYNKM4WM · pith_short_8: YVXBP4CA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YVXBP4CAGYNKM4WMVTFRAUTC2K \
  | 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: c56e17f040361aa672ccaccb105262d29a14e450f792b5d6fcd3e7539006b1ea

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-12T02:48:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "29838e3f3a51aa037600bd5478e7e96d49aacea8b7649a359ec0ca103fb15ce3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2110.05708",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}