Pith Number

pith:PF54CUV2

pith:2025:PF54CUV2ZUWS7AG4KRJZCZDWJZ

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Quantum computation with the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis instead of wavefunction preparation

Thomas E. Baker

arxiv:2504.19185 v2 · 2025-04-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PF54CUV2ZUWS7AG4KRJZCZDWJZ}

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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	2026-05-27T02:06:12.966049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

797bc152bacd2d2f80dc54539164764e504b5c2c979bff5bc1db6ab4c1b0ea9b

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.19185 · arxiv_version: 2504.19185v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.19185 · pith_short_12: PF54CUV2ZUWS · pith_short_16: PF54CUV2ZUWS7AG4 · pith_short_8: PF54CUV2

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/PF54CUV2ZUWS7AG4KRJZCZDWJZ \
  | 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: 797bc152bacd2d2f80dc54539164764e504b5c2c979bff5bc1db6ab4c1b0ea9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfacf505e751942507237ac95a7254df807244692d6fd42f395dd7b47ba258f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-27T10:20:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "944a79dc1d10c485cf516b7e410b256321ebefbc1b4b128efbfb416e47bfeadb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.19185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}