Pith Number

pith:YWENBBBV

pith:2017:YWENBBBVD57XBX6JYKXPPOKSPQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Superposing pure quantum states with partial prior information

Dieter Suter, George Thomas, Shruti Dogra, Sibasish Ghosh

arxiv:1702.02418 v2 · 2017-02-08 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YWENBBBVD57XBX6JYKXPPOKSPQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:41.364175Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c588d084351f7f70dfc9c2aef7b9527c24d31cf2d03bed05cc5255c6782b862b

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02418 · arxiv_version: 1702.02418v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02418 · pith_short_12: YWENBBBVD57X · pith_short_16: YWENBBBVD57XBX6J · pith_short_8: YWENBBBV

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/YWENBBBVD57XBX6JYKXPPOKSPQ \
  | 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: c588d084351f7f70dfc9c2aef7b9527c24d31cf2d03bed05cc5255c6782b862b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd6e1c2e173c85539de6a35a2dcec10684e8cf5e5c3b4ee7ad697741462f5f0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-08T13:37:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36187f39c8adf83b687d730eb8d9449e4af78a6282705f03b8c51385d3665a5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02418",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}