Pith Number

pith:YKA54JQJ

pith:1996:YKA54JQJF7Z5KK64WCLSDBY7NW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fault-Tolerant Error Correction with Efficient Quantum Codes

David P. DiVincenzo (IBM), Peter W. Shor (AT&T)

arxiv:quant-ph/9605031 v2 · 1996-05-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKA54JQJF7Z5KK64WCLSDBY7NW}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T16:02:39.903686Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c281de26092ff3d52bdcb09721871f6dad2d3de45204a3ad72431a8345ae4234

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9605031 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9605031v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9605031 · pith_short_12: YKA54JQJF7Z5 · pith_short_16: YKA54JQJF7Z5KK64 · pith_short_8: YKA54JQJ

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/YKA54JQJF7Z5KK64WCLSDBY7NW \
  | 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: c281de26092ff3d52bdcb09721871f6dad2d3de45204a3ad72431a8345ae4234

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ba108dc03949df2bf18534988994f52c34ea00e539646114069021ef919172d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-22T18:11:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e652b7742848827124818cc2efc14f6849a44d6e09ff9d254ec957aa851641d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9605031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}