Pith Number

pith:HYFL5PHA

pith:2012:HYFL5PHA6AYLUTZ74HT4IQ2DNY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Depth-Optimal Canonical Form for Single-qubit Quantum Circuits

Alex Bocharov, Krysta M. Svore

arxiv:1206.3223 v1 · 2012-06-14 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HYFL5PHA6AYLUTZ74HT4IQ2DNY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:38:43.765046Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e0abebce0f030ba4f3fe1e7c443436e339ac6f013260366645c65bd183f4146

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.3223 · arxiv_version: 1206.3223v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.3223 · pith_short_12: HYFL5PHA6AYL · pith_short_16: HYFL5PHA6AYLUTZ7 · pith_short_8: HYFL5PHA

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/HYFL5PHA6AYLUTZ74HT4IQ2DNY \
  | 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: 3e0abebce0f030ba4f3fe1e7c443436e339ac6f013260366645c65bd183f4146

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c064554c4b5b085e8d6e7022749e85578190bdcd3767e2c991a2df29b17a67a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-14T19:42:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47b19e569e98aa13f974d388ccaba2d506df8114151beb81e6d57031a229ed6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.3223",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}