Pith Number

pith:FB2RB36Q

pith:2013:FB2RB36Q4IKM3SQBETT26LL5OP

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Surface code implementation of block code state distillation

Austin G. Fowler, Cody Jones, Simon J. Devitt

arxiv:1301.7107 v1 · 2013-01-29 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{FB2RB36Q4IKM3SQBETT26LL5OP}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T03:21:21.516217Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

287510efd0e214cdca0124e7af2d7d73f92aecadac895a18334753f9c095d7b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.7107 · arxiv_version: 1301.7107v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.7107 · pith_short_12: FB2RB36Q4IKM · pith_short_16: FB2RB36Q4IKM3SQB · pith_short_8: FB2RB36Q

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FB2RB36Q4IKM3SQBETT26LL5OP \
  | 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: 287510efd0e214cdca0124e7af2d7d73f92aecadac895a18334753f9c095d7b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "400d92d08579a6a929dfd0965b70d0939862ca5bc8b55ecbf2e4e2f87f20ff59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-29T23:58:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54346b18aa8e08930a23383e3fb10b8c68f59a3ea7180411263db6725920bc5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.7107",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}