Pith Number

pith:NRXUU3GA

pith:2025:NRXUU3GAQ3ZRQC2PCSPZJL65JI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quasiprobabilistic imaginary-time evolution on quantum computers

Anirban Chowdhury, Annie Ray, Esha Swaroop, Michael Vasmer, Ningping Cao

arxiv:2505.06343 v2 · 2025-05-09 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NRXUU3GAQ3ZRQC2PCSPZJL65JI}

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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	2026-07-05T11:40:34.250070Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c6f4a6cc086f3180b4f149f94afdd4a1ad53d163b4a3709d8017a09fb6b08df

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.06343 · arxiv_version: 2505.06343v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.06343 · pith_short_12: NRXUU3GAQ3ZR · pith_short_16: NRXUU3GAQ3ZRQC2P · pith_short_8: NRXUU3GA

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/NRXUU3GAQ3ZRQC2PCSPZJL65JI \
  | 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: 6c6f4a6cc086f3180b4f149f94afdd4a1ad53d163b4a3709d8017a09fb6b08df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebb3e26f6366681bdfaacfe89c2e45ebd18242034935467f40a99f960cf84b22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-09T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4775e439cbbc9267c971279aa40b1754534ecd0ad3b721127a1d2351d28a8f34"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.06343",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}