Pith Number

pith:CNREQNZ4

pith:2012:CNREQNZ426MYO7LR7QCDAOSEIA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimental demonstration of topological error correction

Austin G. Fowler, Chao-Yang Lu, Hao-Ze Chen, Jian-Wei Pan, Nai-Le Liu, Robert Raussendorf, Tian-Xiong Wang, Wei-Bo Gao, Xing-Can Yao, You-Jin Deng, Yu-Ao Chen, Zeng-Bing Chen

arxiv:1202.5459 v1 · 2012-02-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CNREQNZ426MYO7LR7QCDAOSEIA}

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:37.077810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

136248373cd799877d71fc04303a44402fdcc43724058534c84959acf96fcea9

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.5459 · arxiv_version: 1202.5459v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.5459 · pith_short_12: CNREQNZ426MY · pith_short_16: CNREQNZ426MYO7LR · pith_short_8: CNREQNZ4

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/CNREQNZ426MYO7LR7QCDAOSEIA \
  | 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: 136248373cd799877d71fc04303a44402fdcc43724058534c84959acf96fcea9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "495e2df4f774272835a644c9f6c4a568a7678e875b876b0d4809a3324e8aa696",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-24T14:38:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "838edd9a824cb63f5f05853ef216e00077e68637c5c54ddea314503df606c5a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.5459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}