Pith Number

pith:G66ZCAR2

pith:2021:G66ZCAR2YDC6RMQYBAS4CHMEZN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scalable randomized benchmarking of quantum computers using mirror circuits

Erik Nielsen, Kenneth Rudinger, Kevin Young, Robin Blume-Kohout, Stefan Seritan, Timothy Proctor

arxiv:2112.09853 v2 · 2021-12-18 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G66ZCAR2YDC6RMQYBAS4CHMEZN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T05:04:46.544368Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37bd91023ac0c5e8b2180825c11d84cb79075debf56187d660c06f0e493f503d

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.09853 · arxiv_version: 2112.09853v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.09853 · pith_short_12: G66ZCAR2YDC6 · pith_short_16: G66ZCAR2YDC6RMQY · pith_short_8: G66ZCAR2

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/G66ZCAR2YDC6RMQYBAS4CHMEZN \
  | 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: 37bd91023ac0c5e8b2180825c11d84cb79075debf56187d660c06f0e493f503d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "201a6fe4da17daf5c27b3b6fed52f3c909f5f38da02476f103d2fdf945ee253b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-18T06:04:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4906ccf55bba705caa978d69b331bf858985131291d2f02587f6724695ed4f22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.09853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}