Pith Number

pith:6T5YHS6G

pith:1998:6T5YHS6GJYUL6TB5T2NMUGM4ZO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm for an Arbitrary Initial Amplitude Distribution

(2) Hebrew University, (3) Karlsruhe University, (4) UC Berkeley), Daniel A. Lidar (4) ((1) Technion, David Biron (2), Eli Biham (1), Germany, Haifa, Jerusalem, Markus Grassl (3), Ofer Biham (2)

arxiv:quant-ph/9807027 v2 · 1998-07-09 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6T5YHS6GJYUL6TB5T2NMUGM4ZO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:00.480603Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4fb83cbc64e28bf4c3d9e9aca199ccb8a4c3978b959f725640f46f56934782f

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9807027 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9807027v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9807027 · pith_short_12: 6T5YHS6GJYUL · pith_short_16: 6T5YHS6GJYUL6TB5 · pith_short_8: 6T5YHS6G

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/6T5YHS6GJYUL6TB5T2NMUGM4ZO \
  | 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: f4fb83cbc64e28bf4c3d9e9aca199ccb8a4c3978b959f725640f46f56934782f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29de1cc6bf39941f43d1d0f934ea7aa81bc4cdbc0c022dce95225a72762c49fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-09T15:14:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ff15f885c0a438ab19c43295f4e217207e25e620b442b2bae7ccd6145ce2f6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9807027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}