Pith Number

pith:VYYK6WFB

pith:2010:VYYK6WFB2MESO2KULC6CRHTSVU

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Surface code quantum error correction incorporating accurate error propagation

Austin G. Fowler, David S. Wang, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

arxiv:1004.0255 v1 · 2010-04-01 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYYK6WFB2MESO2KULC6CRHTSVU}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T04:34:55.300057Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae30af58a1d30927695458bc289e72ad19c3fa337a529b5680e0fa2e90464aa9

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.0255 · arxiv_version: 1004.0255v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.0255 · pith_short_12: VYYK6WFB2MES · pith_short_16: VYYK6WFB2MESO2KU · pith_short_8: VYYK6WFB

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/VYYK6WFB2MESO2KULC6CRHTSVU \
  | 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: ae30af58a1d30927695458bc289e72ad19c3fa337a529b5680e0fa2e90464aa9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "481a1557ae3a7aa929e07d43b2ef3c8c231270ba6678a83e6fa4ab83cdea272a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-01T23:40:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9a20a151b379186b9acc4a659560adecf37b31c4ebde4055ad51df34e99160c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.0255",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}