Pith Number

pith:VDY6ZUC7

pith:1996:VDY6ZUC725EHME6DV7UXVD6T4B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Need Not Completely Reveal the Error Syndrome

John A. Smolin (UCLA), Peter W. Shor (AT&T Labs)

arxiv:quant-ph/9604006 v2 · 1996-04-08 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDY6ZUC725EHME6DV7UXVD6T4B}

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4 Citations 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

Stabilizer Codes and Quantum Error Correction

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:08:19.980339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8f1ecd05fd7487613c3afe97a8fd3e066eb5459be50d2571fe293f0cd8babbc

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9604006 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9604006v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9604006 · pith_short_12: VDY6ZUC725EH · pith_short_16: VDY6ZUC725EHME6D · pith_short_8: VDY6ZUC7

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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/VDY6ZUC725EHME6DV7UXVD6T4B \
  | 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: a8f1ecd05fd7487613c3afe97a8fd3e066eb5459be50d2571fe293f0cd8babbc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bd61e051dc112c58f785a6944f5a14de5abb219b9cb4dfebf7ec51d1cc8b6bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-08T17:55:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c32798332cc0921e8f90dd54961269cedf77f17211eb6af23c8771df3099a656"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9604006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}