Pith Number

pith:XZSS5H5O

pith:1996:XZSS5H5OL725LE7TNDXYWDISHW

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Threshold Estimate for Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation

Christof Zalka (T-6 LANL)

arxiv:quant-ph/9612028 v2 · 1996-12-08 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{XZSS5H5OL725LE7TNDXYWDISHW}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:08:20.441323Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be652e9fae5ff5d593f368ef8b0d123dae627e507f991f4596b216d9277c0792

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9612028 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9612028v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9612028 · pith_short_12: XZSS5H5OL725 · pith_short_16: XZSS5H5OL725LE7T · pith_short_8: XZSS5H5O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XZSS5H5OL725LE7TNDXYWDISHW \
  | 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: be652e9fae5ff5d593f368ef8b0d123dae627e507f991f4596b216d9277c0792

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a03a7053cb9cf438208501aee3fa00f413e67729c79aa25d48ef9babd67ec51e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-08T23:37:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de9fe11d31b8b57edc10ea24580d3304eccc855486d4c363c3dc1ed5a8b52109"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9612028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}