Pith Number

pith:CYTYNXQK

pith:2026:CYTYNXQK72EZNGJZX2AVFIAVHC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Protected measurements for protected superconducting qubits

Andrew C Doherty, Thomas B Smith, Xanda C Kolesnikow

arxiv:2608.03325 v1 · 2026-08-04 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CYTYNXQK72EZNGJZX2AVFIAVHC}

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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	2026-08-05T00:46:54.358372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

162786de0afe89969939be8152a01538b4131478b35579995a30116999296f24

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03325 · arxiv_version: 2608.03325v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03325 · pith_short_12: CYTYNXQK72EZ · pith_short_16: CYTYNXQK72EZNGJZ · pith_short_8: CYTYNXQK

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/CYTYNXQK72EZNGJZX2AVFIAVHC \
  | 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: 162786de0afe89969939be8152a01538b4131478b35579995a30116999296f24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e849dcf42f7876ead7b77bd4c121402f496c63e203aa6c8a3f848c471606425",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T08:35:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b295e07fd541a715d1e45e11a0a85800cf6a38883f2e6fa4ac8b1ad0bdccac83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}