Pith Number

pith:CAE57ILN

pith:2012:CAE57ILNB2NL722ABLY2UUCTSF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Uniqueness of Quantum States Compatible with Given Measurement Results

Bei Zeng, David Kribs, Frederic Shultz, Hillary Dawkins, Jianxin Chen, Nathaniel Johnston, Zhengfeng Ji

arxiv:1212.3503 v2 · 2012-12-14 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CAE57ILNB2NL722ABLY2UUCTSF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:18:31.356491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1009dfa16d0e9abfeb400af1aa5053917d77f6f2d3c85b643744c616d85d5b2c

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.3503 · arxiv_version: 1212.3503v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.3503 · pith_short_12: CAE57ILNB2NL · pith_short_16: CAE57ILNB2NL722A · pith_short_8: CAE57ILN

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/CAE57ILNB2NL722ABLY2UUCTSF \
  | 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: 1009dfa16d0e9abfeb400af1aa5053917d77f6f2d3c85b643744c616d85d5b2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e21238b01bc7ec701183760879b914ca075282d9ea8fc1b8ed6d88848c308ae0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-14T15:35:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee1e4a54cbd461e3ef3269abcfcc63c2370101fb540a9c9c12f73b2c73504d13"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.3503",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}