Pith Number

pith:KAFHEHDG

pith:2025:KAFHEHDGIHQVPZIDFCCRCNQM7Z

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How to Write a Simulator for Quantum Circuits from Scratch: A Tutorial

Jean-Marc Robert, Kazuki Ikeda, Michael J. McGuffin

arxiv:2506.08142 v1 · 2025-06-09 · quant-ph

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A Sparse and Truncated State Vector Simulator for Peaked Circuits

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:18:45.301338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

500a721c6641e157e503288511360cfe4ba4d38af9fb8ab2304e77194517097a

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.08142 · arxiv_version: 2506.08142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.08142 · pith_short_12: KAFHEHDGIHQV · pith_short_16: KAFHEHDGIHQVPZID · pith_short_8: KAFHEHDG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KAFHEHDGIHQVPZIDFCCRCNQM7Z \
  | 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: 500a721c6641e157e503288511360cfe4ba4d38af9fb8ab2304e77194517097a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b04e7562a148952a8750e4b2cc298f3df4020a98834cb156f612c6815fe82a70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-09T18:43:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52a83623fb7e20e88cde2dc671d354ecec1f83437effa1b239cbe00ebfac26a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.08142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}