Pith Number

pith:UDGLAGOQ

pith:2016:UDGLAGOQTKKN2MMQORBAOBWK3B

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Surface Code Error Correction on a Defective Lattice

Austin G. Fowler, Dominic Horsman, Rodney Van Meter, Shota Nagayama, Simon J. Devitt

arxiv:1607.00627 v2 · 2016-07-03 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UDGLAGOQTKKN2MMQORBAOBWK3B}

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4 Citations open

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:25:21.371308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a0ccb019d09a94dd319074420706cad85545255e702a0d5c3d6ef9ffec87007d

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.00627 · arxiv_version: 1607.00627v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.00627 · pith_short_12: UDGLAGOQTKKN · pith_short_16: UDGLAGOQTKKN2MMQ · pith_short_8: UDGLAGOQ

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/UDGLAGOQTKKN2MMQORBAOBWK3B \
  | 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: a0ccb019d09a94dd319074420706cad85545255e702a0d5c3d6ef9ffec87007d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "877959e0951e877fa099e8f768108841c97775114ff1880ca41324a27dc7d99b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-03T12:08:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea2452f53a5672ad9e74c09b704f1df1439cf0681627af126cfb4b0559a2529c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.00627",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}