Pith Number

pith:S3HIQK45

pith:2016:S3HIQK45ONZ64FSI6FJDHDOKAF

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A proposal for a minimal surface code experiment

Andreas Peter, Daniel Loss, James R. Wootton, Janos R. Winkler

arxiv:1608.05053 v3 · 2016-08-17 · quant-ph · cond-mat.str-el

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S3HIQK45ONZ64FSI6FJDHDOKAF}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:53.167392Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96ce882b9d7373ee1648f152338dca01723a6e9afaa025d4b6c4fcc66b18108b

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05053 · arxiv_version: 1608.05053v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05053 · pith_short_12: S3HIQK45ONZ6 · pith_short_16: S3HIQK45ONZ64FSI · pith_short_8: S3HIQK45

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S3HIQK45ONZ64FSI6FJDHDOKAF \
  | 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: 96ce882b9d7373ee1648f152338dca01723a6e9afaa025d4b6c4fcc66b18108b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fea96648821f3624d9f89a8a33d9e6ac5950691f1f30c43ca8bd63396c475e1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.str-el"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-17T19:22:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ed06c1c9710b590adc7b676872757329ff8a6e6c484818262dab99c67e15710"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}