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pith:HOO6BCQK

pith:2012:HOO6BCQKSHKZIZSZTCTCEULCT7

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The Implications of Ignorance for Quantum Error Correction Thresholds

Alastair Kay

arxiv:1208.4924 v3 · 2012-08-24 · quant-ph · cond-mat.str-el

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\pithnumber{HOO6BCQKSHKZIZSZTCTCEULCT7}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:55:39.398161Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b9de08a0a91d594665998a62251629fd640cd49ff036b6fa0b67ec33d723881

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4924 · arxiv_version: 1208.4924v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4924 · pith_short_12: HOO6BCQKSHKZ · pith_short_16: HOO6BCQKSHKZIZSZ · pith_short_8: HOO6BCQK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HOO6BCQKSHKZIZSZTCTCEULCT7 \
  | 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: 3b9de08a0a91d594665998a62251629fd640cd49ff036b6fa0b67ec33d723881

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ad4351629c8b97d751674dcc1542c438e967d620d1ea8917c9d0f93eda8700f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.str-el"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-24T08:37:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ecb96c6d3eee6b5b7f1621f0bc2a00957d4c6852fc75fd2690c219353e2f188c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4924",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}