Pith Number

pith:PBXF7OTW

pith:2026:PBXF7OTWITTEEXNVLSHPFHNJMO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trading Imaginary Time for Randomness in Ground State Preparation

Alvan Arulandu, Isaac L. Chuang, John M. Martyn

arxiv:2608.00443 v1 · 2026-08-01 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBXF7OTWITTEEXNVLSHPFHNJMO}

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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	2026-08-04T00:36:42.043310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

786e5fba7644e6425db55c8ef29da96385b3d0c879b89d48e07a5d2d0339fe81

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00443 · arxiv_version: 2608.00443v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00443 · pith_short_12: PBXF7OTWITTE · pith_short_16: PBXF7OTWITTEEXNV · pith_short_8: PBXF7OTW

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/PBXF7OTWITTEEXNVLSHPFHNJMO \
  | 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: 786e5fba7644e6425db55c8ef29da96385b3d0c879b89d48e07a5d2d0339fe81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7878ce6e2a1e18e6c9a6b97acf42ae009f12fb8786efd339e09a9bf955b895b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T04:48:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59693de1501f46d11a046067420f7f6a15e3c72c264fa9624beeefc9005d462e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00443",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}