Pith Number

pith:I5D6KQ6H

pith:2011:I5D6KQ6HIEQRUP5CJQX6X6N6MW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generation of topologically useful entangled states

Benjamin T. H. Varcoe, Neil B. Lovett

arxiv:1101.1220 v1 · 2011-01-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I5D6KQ6HIEQRUP5CJQX6X6N6MW}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:23:05.109091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4747e543c741211a3fa24c2febf9be65bf0f1a1414849404c64725de9e9a6f38

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.1220 · arxiv_version: 1101.1220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.1220 · pith_short_12: I5D6KQ6HIEQR · pith_short_16: I5D6KQ6HIEQRUP5C · pith_short_8: I5D6KQ6H

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/I5D6KQ6HIEQRUP5CJQX6X6N6MW \
  | 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: 4747e543c741211a3fa24c2febf9be65bf0f1a1414849404c64725de9e9a6f38

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f059dfe4b3c878b2a60152d1500d694c97d45cf42d1a29ed36037a9c1625a16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-01-06T14:23:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f444ace707d0de804a9249526a83696dfa26b1b06e272964471a287e511f16a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.1220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}