Pith Number

pith:QPVEA6ZF

pith:2017:QPVEA6ZFWYVSLBQY62LEGAYHVE

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Magic state parity-checker with pre-distilled components

Earl T. Campbell, Mark Howard

arxiv:1709.02214 v3 · 2017-09-07 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QPVEA6ZFWYVSLBQY62LEGAYHVE}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Magic states are rarely the best resource to optimize: An analytical tool for qubit resource estimation in concatenated codes

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:46.258636Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83ea407b25b62b258618f696430307a90c7122e9037fc01a7d0e239ea5daec53

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02214 · arxiv_version: 1709.02214v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02214 · pith_short_12: QPVEA6ZFWYVS · pith_short_16: QPVEA6ZFWYVSLBQY · pith_short_8: QPVEA6ZF

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/QPVEA6ZFWYVSLBQY62LEGAYHVE \
  | 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: 83ea407b25b62b258618f696430307a90c7122e9037fc01a7d0e239ea5daec53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24e01ca2b4b15e43f43f00db30683aa87a17747ebdb2f9826dd0f3625b481ab2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-07T12:56:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "561f586ed8d963da4d48affb338948a4b43a17ad81e3ce0a4da03e1c70614a1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}