Pith Number

pith:4QQ4AO5C

pith:2012:4QQ4AO5CBLQPUAMX44DWCOY326

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stabilizer quantum error correction toolbox for superconducting qubits

Simon E. Nigg, Steven M. Girvin

arxiv:1212.4000 v3 · 2012-12-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4QQ4AO5CBLQPUAMX44DWCOY326}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:20:09.410482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e421c03ba20ae0fa0197e707613b1bd7a81f3317f13157efe6d9aa44eb6e2572

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.4000 · arxiv_version: 1212.4000v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.4000 · pith_short_12: 4QQ4AO5CBLQP · pith_short_16: 4QQ4AO5CBLQPUAMX · pith_short_8: 4QQ4AO5C

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/4QQ4AO5CBLQPUAMX44DWCOY326 \
  | 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: e421c03ba20ae0fa0197e707613b1bd7a81f3317f13157efe6d9aa44eb6e2572

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc4f9bdffa38056df8198447b323746519a34569b0b1066e572eaa7f6d6085b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-17T14:19:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7676bd95bb8e0bd46d52176be98fc4fa2ee41a664bb51983a1b42a68e393892"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.4000",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}