Pith Number

pith:AQWNS4D7

pith:2012:AQWNS4D7ZRX3PGSWKSLQ7JFL2U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Programming a Topological Quantum Computer

Kae Nemoto, Simon J. Devitt

arxiv:1209.1441 v1 · 2012-09-07 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AQWNS4D7ZRX3PGSWKSLQ7JFL2U}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:20:20.686295Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

042cd9707fcc6fb79a5654970fa4abd50fbc4402a37f5ac887d9585ac22db799

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.1441 · arxiv_version: 1209.1441v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.1441 · pith_short_12: AQWNS4D7ZRX3 · pith_short_16: AQWNS4D7ZRX3PGSW · pith_short_8: AQWNS4D7

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/AQWNS4D7ZRX3PGSWKSLQ7JFL2U \
  | 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: 042cd9707fcc6fb79a5654970fa4abd50fbc4402a37f5ac887d9585ac22db799

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5636f2217bddfbf8ca36e31055baeab13fa6dbe33215e61a5642df4b95940c1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-07T03:17:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98a0a25bc7bf6d4ff4ab818d847d9a8120a7dcf6aa25b9febdd673ea3967e551"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.1441",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}