Pith Number

pith:UCVLMNRM

pith:2016:UCVLMNRM6IE5BTSNT6FBPIEAAW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Poking holes and cutting corners to achieve Clifford gates with the surface code

Benjamin J. Brown, James R. Wootton, Katharina Laubscher, Markus S. Kesselring

arxiv:1609.04673 v5 · 2016-09-15 · quant-ph · cond-mat.str-el

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UCVLMNRM6IE5BTSNT6FBPIEAAW}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:43:43.481810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a0aab6362cf209d0ce4d9f8a17a08005b6c322dc213bbcd0cdb0193f4d854e1a

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04673 · arxiv_version: 1609.04673v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04673 · pith_short_12: UCVLMNRM6IE5 · pith_short_16: UCVLMNRM6IE5BTSN · pith_short_8: UCVLMNRM

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/UCVLMNRM6IE5BTSNT6FBPIEAAW \
  | 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: a0aab6362cf209d0ce4d9f8a17a08005b6c322dc213bbcd0cdb0193f4d854e1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbfb9aec6923e306b00884d934cd039981cb8ce54e38b2c195712ae1b7996b80",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.str-el"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-15T14:35:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86c58de66392d60a88214105ec4caef45336543d31374635babdf1a371b219b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}