Pith Number

pith:6ZYCLYRR

pith:2018:6ZYCLYRR4FBXD6NEUC5GJBDHO5

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Shortcuts to Thermodynamic Computing: The Cost of Fast and Faithful Erasure

A. B. Boyd, A. Patra, C. Jarzynski, J. P. Crutchfield

arxiv:1812.11241 v1 · 2018-12-28 · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.ET · cs.IT · math.IT · nlin.CD

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ZYCLYRR4FBXD6NEUC5GJBDHO5}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:12.469560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f67025e231e14371f9a4a0ba64846777640b1f05afb190fd045a9f5cfbcb221c

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.11241 · arxiv_version: 1812.11241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.11241 · pith_short_12: 6ZYCLYRR4FBX · pith_short_16: 6ZYCLYRR4FBXD6NE · pith_short_8: 6ZYCLYRR

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/6ZYCLYRR4FBXD6NEUC5GJBDHO5 \
  | 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: f67025e231e14371f9a4a0ba64846777640b1f05afb190fd045a9f5cfbcb221c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dbe5ebfb0b029ee0756b5ceee36fda485cf0b83898dcf57c942ee5708bb253e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "nlin.CD"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-28T22:54:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "22bf55c980a8efeccda5467ca23170613ece6493dc91da0bd0505d9666b5ffa5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.11241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}