Pith Number

pith:6S7FVQOS

pith:2015:6S7FVQOSSDYDJUAVBVFDIO3RQY

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Reducing the overhead for quantum computation when noise is biased

David Poulin, Paul Webster, Stephen D. Bartlett

arxiv:1509.05032 v2 · 2015-09-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6S7FVQOSSDYDJUAVBVFDIO3RQY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:25:17.836172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4be5ac1d290f034d0150d4a343b7186155bca24b7b0059da6e0a97871636713

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.05032 · arxiv_version: 1509.05032v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.05032 · pith_short_12: 6S7FVQOSSDYD · pith_short_16: 6S7FVQOSSDYDJUAV · pith_short_8: 6S7FVQOS

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/6S7FVQOSSDYDJUAVBVFDIO3RQY \
  | 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: f4be5ac1d290f034d0150d4a343b7186155bca24b7b0059da6e0a97871636713

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ccb5c3e70e7efd1a653e5bc6b39cfa711b871336f3f878b209e794cf148ff1d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-16T20:05:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0195e4d9bb8f4fc8f60e08728b1d452be79f0946059792b0f9255778f31ea4de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.05032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}