Pith Number

pith:H4QDRQWE

pith:2015:H4QDRQWEPBCN56TZV4G5OJ3OCM

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Characterizing errors on qubit operations via iterative randomized benchmarking

Easwar Magesan, Jay M. Gambetta, Jerry M. Chow, Lev S. Bishop, Sarah Sheldon, Stefan Filipp

arxiv:1504.06597 v1 · 2015-04-24 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H4QDRQWEPBCN56TZV4G5OJ3OCM}

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4 Citations open

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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:23:04.101496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f2038c2c47844defa79af0dd7276e1304da31476de977732cdd2aff3b0f641d

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.06597 · arxiv_version: 1504.06597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.06597 · pith_short_12: H4QDRQWEPBCN · pith_short_16: H4QDRQWEPBCN56TZ · pith_short_8: H4QDRQWE

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/H4QDRQWEPBCN56TZV4G5OJ3OCM \
  | 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: 3f2038c2c47844defa79af0dd7276e1304da31476de977732cdd2aff3b0f641d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bad324623c87eb0598ce083f449dd5ba39a56c785cf3ddb8537fb6be9fed363d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-24T18:56:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd192fa685429ed295723a01d1f49f00c2c2677c2a1f33a9fe6cb50b92d33a0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.06597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}