Pith Number

pith:XTZBSQTA

pith:2012:XTZBSQTAT43BXZ3JMJVYXUYLC6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Excitation of superconducting qubits from hot non-equilibrium quasiparticles

A. Megrant, A. N. Cleland, A. Vainsencher, B. Chiaro, C. Neill, D. Sank, Erik Lucero, H. Wang, J. Kelly, John M. Martinis, J. Wenner, Matteo Mariantoni, M. Lenander, P. J. J. O'Malley, R. Barends, T. C. White, Yi Yin, Yu Chen

arxiv:1209.1674 v2 · 2012-09-08 · cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.mes-hall · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTZBSQTAT43BXZ3JMJVYXUYLC6}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:28:05.757482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcf21942609f361be769626b8bd30b17933911c8413a70bb074122c2201bf870

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.1674 · arxiv_version: 1209.1674v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.1674 · pith_short_12: XTZBSQTAT43B · pith_short_16: XTZBSQTAT43BXZ3J · pith_short_8: XTZBSQTA

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/XTZBSQTAT43BXZ3JMJVYXUYLC6 \
  | 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: bcf21942609f361be769626b8bd30b17933911c8413a70bb074122c2201bf870

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c4ba580636d0bc6a8bf5ba875da3c8c907c8f0c250b3e6e3f66e410ca3e0d01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.supr-con",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-08T00:31:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3771c226e082a09860b247069d53b7f5c7f0a9c8d1222de8abb6b082f05a1ae9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.1674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}