Pith Number

pith:QOYZNFUY

pith:2014:QOYZNFUYAAFLWEN4EMAZKTETSI

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A fast fault-tolerant decoder for qubit and qudit surface codes

Dan E. Browne, Fern H.E. Watson, Hussain Anwar

arxiv:1411.3028 v2 · 2014-11-12 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QOYZNFUYAAFLWEN4EMAZKTETSI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:33:16.352533Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83b1969698000abb11bc2301954c939237ab69828850d55e581dcee96f88e3de

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.3028 · arxiv_version: 1411.3028v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.3028 · pith_short_12: QOYZNFUYAAFL · pith_short_16: QOYZNFUYAAFLWEN4 · pith_short_8: QOYZNFUY

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/QOYZNFUYAAFLWEN4EMAZKTETSI \
  | 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: 83b1969698000abb11bc2301954c939237ab69828850d55e581dcee96f88e3de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c83eb462bd1ee34867b6994006985212d9cedad49c140a199d9ea1db986caba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-12T00:01:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "017ddd9a7d26dacf9b1876c689634b33b4a4ca945254b520517086e029ab0a37"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.3028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}