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pith:X272ADZZ

pith:2016:X272ADZZNC4XBV526BDLNWFIWV

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Optimal Circuit-Level Decoding for Surface Codes

Bettina Heim, Krysta M. Svore, Matthew B. Hastings

arxiv:1609.06373 v1 · 2016-09-20 · quant-ph

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The random coupled-plaquette gauge model and the surface code under circuit-level noise

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:08.507249Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bebfa00f3968b970d7baf046b6d8a8b55f0b3315443a6ff7fc39da62fc9358d8

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.06373 · arxiv_version: 1609.06373v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.06373 · pith_short_12: X272ADZZNC4X · pith_short_16: X272ADZZNC4XBV52 · pith_short_8: X272ADZZ

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X272ADZZNC4XBV526BDLNWFIWV \
  | 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: bebfa00f3968b970d7baf046b6d8a8b55f0b3315443a6ff7fc39da62fc9358d8

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-20T22:21:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d16ec9f3f581573947d6864c09c6f8666c4cea54a4bbad513e2f0f4399bc5b5c"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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