Pith Number

pith:WW72QGWO

pith:2022:WW72QGWOYFD34GLIYSTBDTAJ6O

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Beyond Barren Plateaus: Quantum Variational Algorithms Are Swamped With Traps

Bobak T. Kiani, Eric R. Anschuetz

arxiv:2205.05786 v2 · 2022-05-11 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:25:28.791077Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5bfa81acec147be1968c4a611cc09f38fdf161793d5d01197196222510011cc

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.05786 · arxiv_version: 2205.05786v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.05786 · pith_short_12: WW72QGWOYFD3 · pith_short_16: WW72QGWOYFD34GLI · pith_short_8: WW72QGWO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WW72QGWOYFD34GLIYSTBDTAJ6O \
  | 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: b5bfa81acec147be1968c4a611cc09f38fdf161793d5d01197196222510011cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7c346cf3009fd2e5e94c40a8ccfc0ebe533c942deeae4adaa06d75d14820476",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-11T21:55:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36df63390a288763efb2d73f8b3b6479b572dd7750d09396b424274ed6208894"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.05786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}