Pith Number

pith:3CBEXSKL

pith:2012:3CBEXSKLIDAHV4VVT4SD4EYKSC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A bridge to lower overhead quantum computation

Austin G. Fowler, Simon J. Devitt

arxiv:1209.0510 v4 · 2012-09-04 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3CBEXSKLIDAHV4VVT4SD4EYKSC}

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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.

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2 papers in Pith

Shor's algorithm is possible with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits

Magic state cultivation: growing T states as cheap as CNOT gates

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:28:42.598668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8824bc94b40c07af2b59f243e130a90bebfa07584c0c53b86e141b0b613499c

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.0510 · arxiv_version: 1209.0510v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.0510 · pith_short_12: 3CBEXSKLIDAH · pith_short_16: 3CBEXSKLIDAHV4VV · pith_short_8: 3CBEXSKL

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/3CBEXSKLIDAHV4VVT4SD4EYKSC \
  | 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: d8824bc94b40c07af2b59f243e130a90bebfa07584c0c53b86e141b0b613499c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ec8557c8219eef8d0faf43e921f8b641fc99eae3bdb8dac4beded9e2b9ae83c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-04T01:52:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32e11fd044f989feac01d5262baad0dcc9210280f91818d542f0b2948d5e3543"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.0510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}