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pith:2018:LZAZFFGDU2QS2YTPV7A7UL2OEJ
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Braiding defects in topological stabiliser codes of any dimension cannot be universal

Paul Webster, Stephen D. Bartlett

arxiv:1811.11789 v4 · 2018-11-28 · quant-ph

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Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

5e419294c3a6a12d626fafc1fa2f4e227c3935b934a5f8d94abe2333da39a55b

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arxiv: 1811.11789 · arxiv_version: 1811.11789v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.11789 · pith_short_12: LZAZFFGDU2QS · pith_short_16: LZAZFFGDU2QS2YTP · pith_short_8: LZAZFFGD
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LZAZFFGDU2QS2YTPV7A7UL2OEJ \
  | 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: 5e419294c3a6a12d626fafc1fa2f4e227c3935b934a5f8d94abe2333da39a55b
Canonical record JSON
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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "400fe06dfacf951bb861b3c88040c81b6209bb8821ca6f888deb67756226254e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-28T19:18:10Z",
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  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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