Pith Number

pith:SBCBJ3XZ

pith:2012:SBCBJ3XZCEHQANDEIUUKBJXNV5

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Efficient Clifford+T approximation of single-qubit operators

Peter Selinger

arxiv:1212.6253 v2 · 2012-12-26 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{SBCBJ3XZCEHQANDEIUUKBJXNV5}

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Split-Evolution Quantum Phase Estimation for Particle-Conserving Hamiltonians

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:25:05.314949Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

904414eef9110f0034644528a0a6edaf4922c6d35f545c83f34769e260ac373f

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.6253 · arxiv_version: 1212.6253v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.6253 · pith_short_12: SBCBJ3XZCEHQ · pith_short_16: SBCBJ3XZCEHQANDE · pith_short_8: SBCBJ3XZ

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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/SBCBJ3XZCEHQANDEIUUKBJXNV5 \
  | 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: 904414eef9110f0034644528a0a6edaf4922c6d35f545c83f34769e260ac373f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ceb98a6e88e458c68173cb2496f86075ebc5a0c7a2e89dcbc2d45771a9bae522",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-26T20:52:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2787e7da0dac09e22829ff2095154c2064ff3858d82e8832310b1cf9b35afbae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.6253",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}