Pith Number

pith:XQYZJNW2

pith:2011:XQYZJNW2WPFT456GSFBQDFOTAT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generating and using truly random quantum states in Mathematica

J.A. Miszczak

arxiv:1102.4598 v2 · 2011-02-22 · quant-ph · cs.MS · physics.comp-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQYZJNW2WPFT456GSFBQDFOTAT}

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:47.068787Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc3194b6dab3cb3e77c691430195d304f52bb751809ce0309be7bfe6c8dcd342

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.4598 · arxiv_version: 1102.4598v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.4598 · pith_short_12: XQYZJNW2WPFT · pith_short_16: XQYZJNW2WPFT456G · pith_short_8: XQYZJNW2

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/XQYZJNW2WPFT456GSFBQDFOTAT \
  | 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: bc3194b6dab3cb3e77c691430195d304f52bb751809ce0309be7bfe6c8dcd342

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca09f90d1ea9510c57b5561aef1cfa70ce1b59a64a00086dda0d4922fba2a909",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MS",
      "physics.comp-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-22T19:57:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bc6ac9edbf0156a7d026d13219e8907893021cd625912e3ae81ce9aef7f19fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.4598",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}