Pith Number

pith:B2A57B4S

pith:2017:B2A57B4SAKJZFFLPIBI5TAYYEA

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Test one to test many: a unified approach to quantum benchmarks

Ge Bai, Giulio Chiribella

arxiv:1711.10240 v5 · 2017-11-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B2A57B4SAKJZFFLPIBI5TAYYEA}

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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	2026-07-05T03:17:11.251156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e81df8792029392956f4051d983182010c651a39960b4db90085442e4ca83d2

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10240 · arxiv_version: 1711.10240v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10240 · pith_short_12: B2A57B4SAKJZ · pith_short_16: B2A57B4SAKJZFFLP · pith_short_8: B2A57B4S

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/B2A57B4SAKJZFFLPIBI5TAYYEA \
  | 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: 0e81df8792029392956f4051d983182010c651a39960b4db90085442e4ca83d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a7eb3ecad5797bd90c7e371d8565a70f0fdedd063b63ea81ff9f408145d0f16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T11:56:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3344fcdea10394048b2550edd13c466455318db7441b458d6343f8af9d8d6fbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}