Pith Number

pith:3S5EORAT

pith:2014:3S5EORATU4AIPERBZMPWCIUPKX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A silicon-based surface code quantum computer

Joe O'Gorman, John J. L. Morton, Naomi H. Nickerson, Philipp Ross, Simon C. Benjamin

arxiv:1406.5149 v3 · 2014-06-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3S5EORATU4AIPERBZMPWCIUPKX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:53.339670Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcba474413a700879221cb1f61228f55f711ef993d7d7451ccaf4ee8a250c13f

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.5149 · arxiv_version: 1406.5149v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.5149 · pith_short_12: 3S5EORATU4AI · pith_short_16: 3S5EORATU4AIPERB · pith_short_8: 3S5EORAT

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/3S5EORATU4AIPERBZMPWCIUPKX \
  | 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: dcba474413a700879221cb1f61228f55f711ef993d7d7451ccaf4ee8a250c13f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c47c63814e81256d2e04533ae9f3b7e3f95118ae2cc3a18661a965ccde6a88a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-19T18:52:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85d60c7fe2132a77424ea1f96e9b16a2cac6239d847550f8551c95ea139072fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.5149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}