Pith Number

pith:VHYGS2Q7

pith:2020:VHYGS2Q7C6AECSCL4ITBTB5CC4

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The surface code on the rhombic dodecahedron

Andrew J. Landahl

arxiv:2010.06628 v1 · 2020-10-13 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHYGS2Q7C6AECSCL4ITBTB5CC4}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

A small and interesting architecture for early fault-tolerant quantum computers

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:42:57.792401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9f0696a1f178041484be2261987a217245073aec466178d0af29b23df0e4535

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.06628 · arxiv_version: 2010.06628v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.06628 · pith_short_12: VHYGS2Q7C6AE · pith_short_16: VHYGS2Q7C6AECSCL · pith_short_8: VHYGS2Q7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VHYGS2Q7C6AECSCL4ITBTB5CC4 \
  | 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: a9f0696a1f178041484be2261987a217245073aec466178d0af29b23df0e4535

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b03a5aa6526c3fe535a2e7bd6146455f5d1a417805802310fa3a0c292e0fbdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-13T18:38:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfffdb63581ee029e1c6e9ff7c50c5b0a0d886a47b0c54747d09246f64911170"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.06628",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}