Pith Number

pith:NSMRGADN

pith:2017:NSMRGADN6HY73RW53KXUKDGX7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What randomized benchmarking actually measures

Kenneth Rudinger, Kevin Young, Mohan Sarovar, Robin Blume-Kohout, Timothy Proctor

arxiv:1702.01853 v4 · 2017-02-07 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NSMRGADN6HY73RW53KXUKDGX7P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:59.469369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c9913006df1f1fdc6dddaaf450cd7fbcdf89fa99b36a79285f1b9ab3c2fe7ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01853 · arxiv_version: 1702.01853v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01853 · pith_short_12: NSMRGADN6HY7 · pith_short_16: NSMRGADN6HY73RW5 · pith_short_8: NSMRGADN

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/NSMRGADN6HY73RW53KXUKDGX7P \
  | 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: 6c9913006df1f1fdc6dddaaf450cd7fbcdf89fa99b36a79285f1b9ab3c2fe7ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a025332e87446b6fa9c21475c353e92b6bc3898ff92b21cb6a44cf930cca23db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-07T02:44:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4780be4853fface7ab4046366752a94d897de0473707d5d7ddb9e2de75d70af6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.01853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}