Pith Number

pith:3A7FZWQY

pith:2016:3A7FZWQYOYS2HEPPKKDTDIZ6YD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discrete fluctuations in memory erasure without energy cost

Joan A. Vaccaro, Salil Bedkihal, Toshio Croucher

arxiv:1604.05795 v2 · 2016-04-20 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3A7FZWQYOYS2HEPPKKDTDIZ6YD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:47.742926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d83e5cda187625a391ef528731a33ec0cb4142815d64b915b5cb0248a0e32314

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.05795 · arxiv_version: 1604.05795v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.05795 · pith_short_12: 3A7FZWQYOYS2 · pith_short_16: 3A7FZWQYOYS2HEPP · pith_short_8: 3A7FZWQY

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/3A7FZWQYOYS2HEPPKKDTDIZ6YD \
  | 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: d83e5cda187625a391ef528731a33ec0cb4142815d64b915b5cb0248a0e32314

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b50917a4e224d5e6059143235f80957f88f289b1de546b7661e53070e1555aba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-20T02:48:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9570a57a5783599031f2eebd6ef1aa034ed148494c981965093c0f6ece04fa4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.05795",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}