Pith Number

pith:4V3J4BFQ

pith:2017:4V3J4BFQZ7ZTXG6VEQGGH2ZXG4

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Magic State Distillation with Low Space Overhead and Optimal Asymptotic Input Count

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

arxiv:1703.07847 v3 · 2017-03-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4V3J4BFQZ7ZTXG6VEQGGH2ZXG4}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:50.415260Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5769e04b0cff33b9bd5240c63eb37372953352f5f5dd7b05a474de60462ca86

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07847 · arxiv_version: 1703.07847v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07847 · pith_short_12: 4V3J4BFQZ7ZT · pith_short_16: 4V3J4BFQZ7ZTXG6V · pith_short_8: 4V3J4BFQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4V3J4BFQZ7ZTXG6VEQGGH2ZXG4 \
  | 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: e5769e04b0cff33b9bd5240c63eb37372953352f5f5dd7b05a474de60462ca86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f333a3b3d199fd192261307fe554431867d5cbf89be58aaf5d3dd00f134c603",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-22T21:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d137abd7629427ce052a2ed0347c2bbea0adbf7ae94aee7c070c2e723dc4ec53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07847",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}