Pith Number

pith:GYFKXDFU

pith:2023:GYFKXDFULUDEMPYXH6NEGUGZQG

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Simulating quantum computation: how many "bits" for "it"?

Cihan Okay, Michael Zurel, Robert Raussendorf

arxiv:2305.17287 v3 · 2023-05-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GYFKXDFULUDEMPYXH6NEGUGZQG}

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5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:02:39.413186Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

360aab8cb45d06463f173f9a4350d98188fa68d22b9ae6e7c7eed695fd3c7431

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.17287 · arxiv_version: 2305.17287v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.17287 · pith_short_12: GYFKXDFULUDE · pith_short_16: GYFKXDFULUDEMPYX · pith_short_8: GYFKXDFU

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/GYFKXDFULUDEMPYXH6NEGUGZQG \
  | 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: 360aab8cb45d06463f173f9a4350d98188fa68d22b9ae6e7c7eed695fd3c7431

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a19cb44e10eb765a31e312e062d9968cca6e85861324a9b4971aaa36b7fedd2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-26T22:15:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8e3848b9eeb8f1890ae22825feffdd0f9b6a254dc36cf934b2ffbcf3f907f20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.17287",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}