Pith Number

pith:YZTQKZTR

pith:2023:YZTQKZTRO3YSKKVO4XHCFYCDOE

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A Herculean task: Classical simulation of quantum computers

Jinzhao Sun, Pan Zhang, Simon Benjamin, Xiaosi Xu, Xiao Yuan

arxiv:2302.08880 v1 · 2023-02-17 · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:42:56.157666Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c66705667176f1252aaee5ce22e0437138b408200b63431c7e4e5097e24e474c

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.08880 · arxiv_version: 2302.08880v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.08880 · pith_short_12: YZTQKZTRO3YS · pith_short_16: YZTQKZTRO3YSKKVO · pith_short_8: YZTQKZTR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YZTQKZTRO3YSKKVO4XHCFYCDOE \
  | 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: c66705667176f1252aaee5ce22e0437138b408200b63431c7e4e5097e24e474c

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d4e22873fd686b47acefd9ea03f933ef8656b433a0c838934b924a94e48d538",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-17T13:59:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "050812c9b88b89fac519a5047da20bd1509dd0dea5b690edc91b35acb4cdfe09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2302.08880",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}