Pith Number

pith:B4CCHA7Q

pith:2026:B4CCHA7Q2HVESLOVEGPVWIE736

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware Was Built to Lose

Amit Hagar

arxiv:2607.07530 v1 · 2026-07-08 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4CCHA7Q2HVESLOVEGPVWIE736}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-09T01:20:28.088772Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f042383f0d1ea492dd5219f5b209fdfa66cebc7038c97c979667f2a4d84406e

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.07530 · arxiv_version: 2607.07530v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07530 · pith_short_12: B4CCHA7Q2HVE · pith_short_16: B4CCHA7Q2HVESLOV · pith_short_8: B4CCHA7Q

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/B4CCHA7Q2HVESLOVEGPVWIE736 \
  | 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: 0f042383f0d1ea492dd5219f5b209fdfa66cebc7038c97c979667f2a4d84406e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4739e76b5049825e2eb5f1f101eb613dd7288083440aa790d8d4d16de2b20f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T15:25:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cd995cf41f95f548d9176d6f5c863a71ea09050834e087fbbb454ba42833dae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.07530",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}