Pith Number

pith:NZ3SN434

pith:2012:NZ3SN4344T5RNVLKVNU6EU3V7O

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Is the Measurement Based Quantum Computing Search Algorithm Really Grover's Algorithm?

A. Matthew Smith, D.B. Uskov, J. R. McDonald, P. M. Alsing

arxiv:1211.3407 v3 · 2012-11-14 · quant-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NZ3SN4344T5RNVLKVNU6EU3V7O}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:30:41.409973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e7726f37ce4fb16d56aab69e25375fb8b1d38e2d89b0a529909ed44255603ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3407 · arxiv_version: 1211.3407v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3407 · pith_short_12: NZ3SN4344T5R · pith_short_16: NZ3SN4344T5RNVLK · pith_short_8: NZ3SN434

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NZ3SN4344T5RNVLKVNU6EU3V7O \
  | 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: 6e7726f37ce4fb16d56aab69e25375fb8b1d38e2d89b0a529909ed44255603ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a3591102278723ede9b7c35b3972250ad2d5aceb13513c7d33b2f5ee1eb4a35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-14T20:30:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab4b2ba12676ae7cea1e28fa6a5e21a1b89e2ae657c249c28bcb0735d2db7202"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}