Pith Number

pith:YNGCQJVA

pith:2017:YNGCQJVA4IYGM7BNYPDPDD6DOM

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Flag fault-tolerant error correction with arbitrary distance codes

Christopher Chamberland, Michael E. Beverland

arxiv:1708.02246 v3 · 2017-08-07 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNGCQJVA4IYGM7BNYPDPDD6DOM}

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2 papers in Pith

Magic states are rarely the best resource to optimize: An analytical tool for qubit resource estimation in concatenated codes

Simplified circuit-level decoding using Knill error correction

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:04.235238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c34c2826a0e230667c2dc3c6f18fc3730cedcdc2c74ca5b8845b5463a6e7eaa0

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02246 · arxiv_version: 1708.02246v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02246 · pith_short_12: YNGCQJVA4IYG · pith_short_16: YNGCQJVA4IYGM7BN · pith_short_8: YNGCQJVA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YNGCQJVA4IYGM7BNYPDPDD6DOM \
  | 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: c34c2826a0e230667c2dc3c6f18fc3730cedcdc2c74ca5b8845b5463a6e7eaa0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c5bf46350514c6a1b475ef2a1ff00a99ecfd9c85fa9eb25509b3846c9b98f89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-07T18:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2187929d72fefa56030f3129a7c1abfcd8f5f8272f49b19ae1ba10390cf4c2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02246",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}