Pith Number

pith:IWIOXRL5

pith:2000:IWIOXRL53FJNFAILRTTKKTD77V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Encoding a qubit in an oscillator

Alexei Kitaev, Daniel Gottesman, John Preskill

arxiv:quant-ph/0008040 v3 · 2000-08-08 · quant-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWIOXRL53FJNFAILRTTKKTD77V}

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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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2 papers in Pith

Linear optical Bell state measurement for rotation-symmetric cat codes

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:34:29.593102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4590ebc57dd952d2810b8ce6a54c7ffd6740bb357a7f0ad6bec24198d6db3e26

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0008040 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0008040v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0008040 · pith_short_12: IWIOXRL53FJN · pith_short_16: IWIOXRL53FJNFAIL · pith_short_8: IWIOXRL5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IWIOXRL53FJNFAILRTTKKTD77V \
  | 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: 4590ebc57dd952d2810b8ce6a54c7ffd6740bb357a7f0ad6bec24198d6db3e26

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30153b61f1acfc5b2ceddd3876e6404dfd61412f6321bd4cc687bf170d52e1df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-08-08T18:07:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "489e9b4c9492cd3f16dfef80501cd58a0272bb5a0f445fea41eadff7498f8a8b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0008040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}