Pith Number

pith:3WRFVPR2

pith:2017:3WRFVPR2AOANBXRC7JCPDQY6RQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Magic State Distillation at Intermediate Size

D. Poulin, D. Wecker, Jeongwan Haah, Matthew B. Hastings

arxiv:1709.02789 v1 · 2017-09-08 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{3WRFVPR2AOANBXRC7JCPDQY6RQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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Asymptotic magic state distillation with almost linear rate

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:19:08.779597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dda25abe3a0380d0de22fa44f1c31e8c2f5939b7c2fa4f3231cd6fcc864df2d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02789 · arxiv_version: 1709.02789v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02789 · pith_short_12: 3WRFVPR2AOAN · pith_short_16: 3WRFVPR2AOANBXRC · pith_short_8: 3WRFVPR2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3WRFVPR2AOANBXRC7JCPDQY6RQ \
  | 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: dda25abe3a0380d0de22fa44f1c31e8c2f5939b7c2fa4f3231cd6fcc864df2d8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "849d617b15b31254b68d5b7a0cba10c9954b6bda63d40512fafbbbd195a4e30d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-08T17:44:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "feb3f508c82de3989b598706b4b0a47db0df98c4c160cd78a5c30dc16751c6bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02789",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}