Pith Number

pith:PDEDX36R

pith:2014:PDEDX36RN4SVQ2KD4UFDOGGS3H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum state engineering by click counting

G. S. Agarwal, J. Sperling, W. Vogel

arxiv:1403.1044 v2 · 2014-03-05 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PDEDX36RN4SVQ2KD4UFDOGGS3H}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:44:19.765374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78c83befd16f25586943e50a3718d2d9d97d93596399c39537526c50d78a3974

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.1044 · arxiv_version: 1403.1044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.1044 · pith_short_12: PDEDX36RN4SV · pith_short_16: PDEDX36RN4SVQ2KD · pith_short_8: PDEDX36R

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/PDEDX36RN4SVQ2KD4UFDOGGS3H \
  | 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: 78c83befd16f25586943e50a3718d2d9d97d93596399c39537526c50d78a3974

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a86623e59c3cc96906432e2aa38b3680b1419432c6ed9d4e6c3bf4f88bbeaee9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-05T08:40:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed11dd6184e12fd8edcc2801d61b0f908c5a6863befd5eb0e8c2a083420026a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.1044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}