Pith Number

pith:BTWJN7A4

pith:2021:BTWJN7A4F3UZ6QEVIP3E2T3ZJJ

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The cost of universality: A comparative study of the overhead of state distillation and code switching with color codes

Aleksander Kubica, Krysta M. Svore, Michael E. Beverland

arxiv:2101.02211 v1 · 2021-01-06 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{BTWJN7A4F3UZ6QEVIP3E2T3ZJJ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-05T02:51:13.461079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cec96fc1c2ee99f409543f64d4f794a51ed29d03f19cae8339263239e7dff3c

Aliases

arxiv: 2101.02211 · arxiv_version: 2101.02211v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2101.02211 · pith_short_12: BTWJN7A4F3UZ · pith_short_16: BTWJN7A4F3UZ6QEV · pith_short_8: BTWJN7A4

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/BTWJN7A4F3UZ6QEVIP3E2T3ZJJ \
  | 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: 0cec96fc1c2ee99f409543f64d4f794a51ed29d03f19cae8339263239e7dff3c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de70c716d7418af9006be2b2a5b9bea8b7faa586f7ab29ce0bd6d68077dbd0e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-01-06T19:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c6ab036f59cb97cb0f6eb793d190518b9d9f901e5eaf8743a59419768148ac3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2101.02211",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}