Pith Number

pith:VHQNJ4WI

pith:2026:VHQNJ4WIWDKMDWIJEIHDNHJSD7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Detailed, interpretable characterization of mid-circuit measurement on a transmon qubit

Bethany M. Niedzielski, Corey I. Ostrove, David K. Kim, Gabriel O. Samach, Jeffrey M. Gertler, Katrina M. Sliwa, Kenneth M. Rudinger, Luke D. Burkhart, Madeline H. Morocco, Mollie E. Schwartz, Nathan E. Miller, Piper C. Wysocki, Riley J. Murray, Robin Blume-Kohout, Tristan Brown

arxiv:2602.03938 v3 · 2026-02-03 · quant-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHQNJ4WIWDKMDWIJEIHDNHJSD7}

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.

Cited by

2 papers in Pith

Learning Mid-circuit Measurement Backaction from Three Repeated Measurements

Understanding Quantum Instruments

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-07T01:36:13.613981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9e0d4f2c8b0d4c1d909220e369d321fce9f18308d5e1bdd3abe63e234437129

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.03938 · arxiv_version: 2602.03938v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.03938 · pith_short_12: VHQNJ4WIWDKM · pith_short_16: VHQNJ4WIWDKMDWIJ · pith_short_8: VHQNJ4WI

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/VHQNJ4WIWDKMDWIJEIHDNHJSD7 \
  | 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: a9e0d4f2c8b0d4c1d909220e369d321fce9f18308d5e1bdd3abe63e234437129

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32467993880a25d38753b3af3b88ef5c83adce176a98aca413e5034ef00da06b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-03T19:00:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b56fa6a410e8aeed288162e406c0943714d85ba59e0d38454520c158575b209"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.03938",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}