Pith Number

pith:WLN3K5JH

pith:2011:WLN3K5JH2VSJIZPHOV2FLE42GX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Single-qubit-gate error below 10^-4 in a trapped ion

A. C. Wilson, A. M. Meier, C. Ospelkaus, D. J. Wineland, D. Leibfried, E. Knill, K. R. Brown, Y. Colombe

arxiv:1104.2552 v2 · 2011-04-13 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WLN3K5JH2VSJIZPHOV2FLE42GX}

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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	2026-05-18T02:22:09.314493Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2dbb57527d5649465e7757455939a35ece231211e329037e67835ff5b2097d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.2552 · arxiv_version: 1104.2552v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.2552 · pith_short_12: WLN3K5JH2VSJ · pith_short_16: WLN3K5JH2VSJIZPH · pith_short_8: WLN3K5JH

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/WLN3K5JH2VSJIZPHOV2FLE42GX \
  | 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: b2dbb57527d5649465e7757455939a35ece231211e329037e67835ff5b2097d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e614cf9adedc364fa54625287ed818362f422c2e6c0ec7416cd60864369fd7b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-13T17:06:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b3f056b9f5d1731b5c4b400ac7536f780c390bbc0d9107194a5467859aa5691"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.2552",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}