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pith:WJVOINZG

pith:2018:WJVOINZGTMREPFKYXUS5O4ZJMY

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On the depth overhead incurred when running quantum algorithms on near-term quantum computers with limited qubit connectivity

Steven Herbert

arxiv:1805.12570 v5 · 2018-05-31 · quant-ph

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Circuit Design Informed Adaptive Variational Quantum Algorithms

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:22:28.333163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b26ae437269b22479558bd25d77329661400f89a3b83a30fb73be1ea4e35f3a5

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arxiv: 1805.12570 · arxiv_version: 1805.12570v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.12570 · pith_short_12: WJVOINZGTMRE · pith_short_16: WJVOINZGTMREPFKY · pith_short_8: WJVOINZG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WJVOINZGTMREPFKYXUS5O4ZJMY \
  | 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: b26ae437269b22479558bd25d77329661400f89a3b83a30fb73be1ea4e35f3a5

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-31T17:26:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8029d1975c3ae26d722cb762eca86f323e7f0c6e383a5b2f6393083caef5a85f"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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