Pith Number

pith:7PNBOBVG

pith:1997:7PNBOBVGBGXRDKCIXZTFMP674S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A nonadditive quantum code

Eric M. Rains, N. J. A. Sloane (AT&T Research), Peter W. Shor, R. H. Hardin

arxiv:quant-ph/9703002 v2 · 1997-03-04 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7PNBOBVGBGXRDKCIXZTFMP674S}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Stabilizer Codes and Quantum Error Correction

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:36:41.920733Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fbda1706a609af11a848be66563fdfe48b3e5c49e6db9b999698d7f4c1db3211

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9703002 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9703002v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9703002 · pith_short_12: 7PNBOBVGBGXR · pith_short_16: 7PNBOBVGBGXRDKCI · pith_short_8: 7PNBOBVG

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/7PNBOBVGBGXRDKCIXZTFMP674S \
  | 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: fbda1706a609af11a848be66563fdfe48b3e5c49e6db9b999698d7f4c1db3211

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddc5bccac956435c0c16626117a679c3f8d4901a2518985be207c581788fb3b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-04T19:36:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9a5c1271c2d3f515829f57917cf58d8de50e859a940511674a5e9e2da6d0fc1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9703002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}