Pith Number

pith:TDHYLGX7

pith:2017:TDHYLGX77SOYEGFF6MFMNM24YB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A slightly smaller surface code S gate

Austin Fowler, Craig Gidney

arxiv:1708.00054 v1 · 2017-07-31 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TDHYLGX77SOYEGFF6MFMNM24YB}

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5 Replications open

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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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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:06.155779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98cf859afffc9d8218a5f30ac6b35cc060ff741632c38370ceec95e42e25b44b

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00054 · arxiv_version: 1708.00054v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00054 · pith_short_12: TDHYLGX77SOY · pith_short_16: TDHYLGX77SOYEGFF · pith_short_8: TDHYLGX7

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/TDHYLGX77SOYEGFF6MFMNM24YB \
  | 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: 98cf859afffc9d8218a5f30ac6b35cc060ff741632c38370ceec95e42e25b44b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2763269900482a13c0cbcb68b76fb00602dacd74aab5c587e4066f2915a38f90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-31T20:09:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3efeebf4d6cc1074d5e691fb1a530815c5a2fc7e1faf84c6a30a4d7f195add08"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00054",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}