Pith Number

pith:VVP6D3TL

pith:2020:VVP6D3TLREV73ZCT5UFCKI2QTY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Virtual Distillation for Quantum Error Mitigation

Jarrod R. McClean, Joonho Lee, K. Birgitta Whaley, Nicholas C. Rubin, Ryan Babbush, Sam McArdle, Sergio Boixo, Thomas E. O'Brien, William J. Huggins

arxiv:2011.07064 v3 · 2020-11-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVP6D3TLREV73ZCT5UFCKI2QTY}

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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	2026-07-05T03:36:35.370341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad5fe1ee6b892bfde453ed0a2523509e30f8588435d2f9bd1e1d4fe913729488

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.07064 · arxiv_version: 2011.07064v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.07064 · pith_short_12: VVP6D3TLREV7 · pith_short_16: VVP6D3TLREV73ZCT · pith_short_8: VVP6D3TL

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/VVP6D3TLREV73ZCT5UFCKI2QTY \
  | 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: ad5fe1ee6b892bfde453ed0a2523509e30f8588435d2f9bd1e1d4fe913729488

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45c6037f44b79dfdf44907239d7797ee6ef78f1f9e23f04f44765a092b54cd71",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-13T18:58:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acb238c27f57cdfcc70c899b9ffd24b0ee2052d4d1c4baa759c40113b9beed9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.07064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}