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pith:3V2GCEFY

pith:2025:3V2GCEFYJURVQNYLMOL5DWU6DR

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Excising dead components in the surface code using minimally invasive alterations: A performance study

Adam Paetznick, Bela Bauer, Christina Knapp, David Aasen, Juan Bello-Rivas, Marcus P. da Silva, Parsa Bonderson, Ryan V. Mishmash, Vadym Kliuchnikov, Yue Wu

arxiv:2508.04786 v1 · 2025-08-06 · quant-ph

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X-Z Round Scheduling for the Surface Code with Defects under Biased Noise

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:50:01.567493Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd746110b84d2358370b6397d1da9e1c5f29b87ffc48fb19b785c257e8ae2374

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.04786 · arxiv_version: 2508.04786v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.04786 · pith_short_12: 3V2GCEFYJURV · pith_short_16: 3V2GCEFYJURVQNYL · pith_short_8: 3V2GCEFY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3V2GCEFYJURVQNYLMOL5DWU6DR \
  | 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: dd746110b84d2358370b6397d1da9e1c5f29b87ffc48fb19b785c257e8ae2374

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-06T18:02:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8fc19e77f98f47acda16f41c839db135a1fbf8194f6516eaf9f0d75eb75197b2"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2508.04786",
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  }
}