Pith Number

pith:BNKQYLPB

pith:2015:BNKQYLPBEOJXOCLJRAKGGDEVFI

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Quantum algorithms for simulated annealing

Rolando D. Somma, Sergio Boixo

arxiv:1512.03806 v2 · 2015-12-11 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNKQYLPBEOJXOCLJRAKGGDEVFI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:20.038513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b550c2de123937709698814630c952a353afec7c5e9ba8f52c08105239a1ccd

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.03806 · arxiv_version: 1512.03806v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.03806 · pith_short_12: BNKQYLPBEOJX · pith_short_16: BNKQYLPBEOJXOCLJ · pith_short_8: BNKQYLPB

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/BNKQYLPBEOJXOCLJRAKGGDEVFI \
  | 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: 0b550c2de123937709698814630c952a353afec7c5e9ba8f52c08105239a1ccd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3396a6996aaa81af366059e1cef914ec821c8c7e8b009519f67c8510774e83fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-11T20:59:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe18b01f97cde43f4b77a92250ce855cfa8093151b866ef8ecee6fcb77dc85fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.03806",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}