Pith Number

pith:VWE3C4XZ

pith:2017:VWE3C4XZS4EHR7CW35EMCIDPEE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Defects in Quantum Computers

Bart{\l}omiej Gardas, Jacek Dziarmaga, M. Zwolak, Wojciech H. Zurek

arxiv:1707.09463 v2 · 2017-07-29 · quant-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWE3C4XZS4EHR7CW35EMCIDPEE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:16.923118Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad89b172f9970878fc56df48c1206f210e809e65919b1ecb46b8a10e64955cf2

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.09463 · arxiv_version: 1707.09463v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.09463 · pith_short_12: VWE3C4XZS4EH · pith_short_16: VWE3C4XZS4EHR7CW · pith_short_8: VWE3C4XZ

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/VWE3C4XZS4EHR7CW35EMCIDPEE \
  | 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: ad89b172f9970878fc56df48c1206f210e809e65919b1ecb46b8a10e64955cf2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0f2fcb52ba3b7e266225507c47125d2958f415bbd7a8738da82c358cedcfed2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-29T05:30:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78bf2c32ed2b5a1fa3fec3cfbbb4a7b47c071aabcd7d366f6bff9b0f0ae3b970"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.09463",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}