Pith Number

pith:ES42WHWW

pith:1996:ES42WHWWWFJG65SZ6YRCDA3LN5

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Active stabilisation, quantum computation and quantum state synthesis

Andrew Steane (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University)

arxiv:quant-ph/9611027 v1 · 1996-11-16 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{ES42WHWWWFJG65SZ6YRCDA3LN5}

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3 papers in Pith

Improved Logical Error Rate via List Decoding of Quantum Polar Codes

Fire and ice: Partially fault-tolerant quantum computing with selective state filtering

Demonstration of logical qubits and repeated error correction with better-than-physical error rates

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:36:41.841941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24b9ab1ed6b1526f7659f62221836b6f5dcd566cf3a4b67d4dc6554ca01ffc44

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9611027 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9611027v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9611027 · pith_short_12: ES42WHWWWFJG · pith_short_16: ES42WHWWWFJG65SZ · pith_short_8: ES42WHWW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ES42WHWWWFJG65SZ6YRCDA3LN5 \
  | 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: 24b9ab1ed6b1526f7659f62221836b6f5dcd566cf3a4b67d4dc6554ca01ffc44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f306f2b4cda62fd296ff074b613a89db5b0d430a2c04d7abf9b1971102330ca9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-16T14:49:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82ba1233d894a36d8e691ccf2d8e976be31153d79f39282deba112427a9dccb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9611027",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}