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pith:QX36SEOD

pith:2018:QX36SEOD7T6ZX72CZHR4MTLWTJ

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The boundaries and twist defects of the color code and their applications to topological quantum computation

Benjamin J. Brown, Fernando Pastawski, Jens Eisert, Markus S. Kesselring

arxiv:1806.02820 v3 · 2018-06-07 · quant-ph · cond-mat.str-el

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Emergence of synthetic twist defects in the surface code under local perturbation

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:25.028251Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

85f7e911c3fcfd9bff42c9e3c64d769a5d6b7aeda7598300bcd4e87177ddb635

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arxiv: 1806.02820 · arxiv_version: 1806.02820v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.02820 · pith_short_12: QX36SEOD7T6Z · pith_short_16: QX36SEOD7T6ZX72C · pith_short_8: QX36SEOD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QX36SEOD7T6ZX72CZHR4MTLWTJ \
  | 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: 85f7e911c3fcfd9bff42c9e3c64d769a5d6b7aeda7598300bcd4e87177ddb635

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2018-06-07T17:54:20Z",
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