Pith Number

pith:QDYEVCI6

pith:2019:QDYEVCI6EWAT5SJ4KKDPIUCXKC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A volumetric framework for quantum computer benchmarks

Kevin C. Young, Robin Blume-Kohout

arxiv:1904.05546 v4 · 2019-04-11 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QDYEVCI6EWAT5SJ4KKDPIUCXKC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T01:51:36.153475Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80f04a891e25813ec93c5286f4505750b2c05d944d5bc7f12ab34199f122f92d

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.05546 · arxiv_version: 1904.05546v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.05546 · pith_short_12: QDYEVCI6EWAT · pith_short_16: QDYEVCI6EWAT5SJ4 · pith_short_8: QDYEVCI6

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/QDYEVCI6EWAT5SJ4KKDPIUCXKC \
  | 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: 80f04a891e25813ec93c5286f4505750b2c05d944d5bc7f12ab34199f122f92d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19effee0f1853fb5326b6e8d94116eca4c4351a940dc5afd7c2973ff3905072e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-11T06:25:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "292d6917be10a0c972283adaae6cfda96ac85edab8ce0f6d75fa9eb772268971"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.05546",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}