Pith Number

pith:6TLR6GBD

pith:2007:6TLR6GBDGQR3BVOPRNBHAALTHI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fault-tolerant quantum computation against biased noise

John Preskill, Panos Aliferis

arxiv:0710.1301 v3 · 2007-10-06 · quant-ph · cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.supr-con

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6TLR6GBDGQR3BVOPRNBHAALTHI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T15:16:14.257206Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4d71f18233423b0d5cf8b427001733a2c41aa074e39f6f0f52afd66ee107ac6

Aliases

arxiv: 0710.1301 · arxiv_version: 0710.1301v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0710.1301 · pith_short_12: 6TLR6GBDGQR3 · pith_short_16: 6TLR6GBDGQR3BVOP · pith_short_8: 6TLR6GBD

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/6TLR6GBDGQR3BVOPRNBHAALTHI \
  | 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: f4d71f18233423b0d5cf8b427001733a2c41aa074e39f6f0f52afd66ee107ac6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d48a716178795e5120388dcd5ba32563a45856e8b4e2f22a03f861c2501af43f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "cond-mat.supr-con"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-10-06T19:41:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90622a06be38a75a20aedf174cb824bb92033962f204d38208d509206eaad9f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0710.1301",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}