Pith Number

pith:N32F724Q

pith:2020:N32F724QQVN3OCDDSEKGWDNTY4

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ZX-calculus for the working quantum computer scientist

John van de Wetering

arxiv:2012.13966 v1 · 2020-12-27 · quant-ph

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10 papers in Pith

Minimality of the Stabilizer ZX Calculus

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Linear-Time T-Gate Optimization via Random Abstraction

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:02:14.373959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ef45feb90855bb7086391146b0db3c72545d3cd82dc5a8f0877db13f818c172

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.13966 · arxiv_version: 2012.13966v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.13966 · pith_short_12: N32F724QQVN3 · pith_short_16: N32F724QQVN3OCDD · pith_short_8: N32F724Q

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N32F724QQVN3OCDDSEKGWDNTY4 \
  | 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: 6ef45feb90855bb7086391146b0db3c72545d3cd82dc5a8f0877db13f818c172

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "254a75522f3fb8ab8089a2a475e42ba18ec6d895cc5e3f28a5c5023297c2f9e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-27T15:54:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c62c654dcbfe340ca9e073b2983404faa646652623fe00548e96771477c2ae2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.13966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}