Pith Number

pith:WADZLHHG

pith:1996:WADZLHHGLJFC6QTKF5MJFS6DVB

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Simple Quantum Error Correcting Codes

Andrew Steane (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University)

arxiv:quant-ph/9605021 v1 · 1996-05-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WADZLHHGLJFC6QTKF5MJFS6DVB}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:34:53.294257Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b007959ce65a4a2f426a2f5892cbc3a845be3222aba05054abf9789e51333181

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9605021 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9605021v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9605021 · pith_short_12: WADZLHHGLJFC · pith_short_16: WADZLHHGLJFC6QTK · pith_short_8: WADZLHHG

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/WADZLHHGLJFC6QTKF5MJFS6DVB \
  | 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: b007959ce65a4a2f426a2f5892cbc3a845be3222aba05054abf9789e51333181

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1a1dbe7883c0b32f81b52d90472c22967e19823e3b54c4ce2811bd15b9f7f8a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-15T15:12:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bee7ffedbde11f58e7159efd8879265b345725617b736530e0bb75690fa5deda"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9605021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}