Pith Number

pith:B5NMQ7YR

pith:2021:B5NMQ7YRGNWLBTE4HIIQOCFJLH

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Theory of mirror benchmarking and demonstration on a quantum computer

Aaron Hankin, Alex Hall, Dan Gresh, John Gaebler, Justin Bohnet, Justin Gerber, Karl Mayer, Kenny Lee, Kevin Gilmore, Si Khadir Halit, Thomas Gatterman

arxiv:2108.10431 v2 · 2021-08-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5NMQ7YRGNWLBTE4HIIQOCFJLH}

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Record completeness

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:16:34.596716Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f5ac87f11336cb0cc9c3a110708a959f1d7ba9587fb72a47151ddf09d41d15b

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.10431 · arxiv_version: 2108.10431v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.10431 · pith_short_12: B5NMQ7YRGNWL · pith_short_16: B5NMQ7YRGNWLBTE4 · pith_short_8: B5NMQ7YR

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/B5NMQ7YRGNWLBTE4HIIQOCFJLH \
  | 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: 0f5ac87f11336cb0cc9c3a110708a959f1d7ba9587fb72a47151ddf09d41d15b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98ca9bbb99a7153da0ea1de3a33caeebcbb349c30785ab897a7abd77cd71965f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-23T22:14:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f6a038e19ed73ba696eb493d3bbff912e8d861860bcc7747f4cc7abc99026fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2108.10431",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}