Pith Number

pith:BILQJDW4

pith:2014:BILQJDW4R323534UXBKEODCGJD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Approach to Quantum Error Correction

Bing-jian Shang, Ri Qu, Yan-ru Bao, Yi-ping Ma

arxiv:1401.0456 v2 · 2014-01-02 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BILQJDW4R323534UXBKEODCGJD}

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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	2026-05-18T02:53:26.720401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a17048edc8ef5beef94b854470c4648f53b5f7927d2d5fbcd7047d01169da1a

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.0456 · arxiv_version: 1401.0456v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.0456 · pith_short_12: BILQJDW4R323 · pith_short_16: BILQJDW4R323534U · pith_short_8: BILQJDW4

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/BILQJDW4R323534UXBKEODCGJD \
  | 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: 0a17048edc8ef5beef94b854470c4648f53b5f7927d2d5fbcd7047d01169da1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "519c445d41f65002117d014ff1b22fa9f0e983a65b503733c23c1075b81c465a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-02T15:24:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ed6e30f75f6d61137ef0183b561ffb92ce2d3411910c55a726f90c5b5bd1b5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.0456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}