Pith Number

pith:4VBA7N36

pith:2009:4VBA7N36MHPZULXXZSVFET7BON

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quasi-particle scattering and protected nature of topological states in a parent topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$

Chul Kim, C. Kim, D. J. Song, K. D. Lee, N. Hur, S. Kimura, S. R. Park, W. S. Jung

arxiv:0912.3883 v1 · 2009-12-19 · cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VBA7N36MHPZULXXZSVFET7BON}

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:34.677831Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5420fb77e61df9a2ef7ccaa524fe17361d98d5799c908cbe3662f5c3d07ab2d

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.3883 · arxiv_version: 0912.3883v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.3883 · pith_short_12: 4VBA7N36MHPZ · pith_short_16: 4VBA7N36MHPZULXX · pith_short_8: 4VBA7N36

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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/4VBA7N36MHPZULXXZSVFET7BON \
  | 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: e5420fb77e61df9a2ef7ccaa524fe17361d98d5799c908cbe3662f5c3d07ab2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00021a86585c6530f23b6f6299f7a943e62e68ba7dfebb9de4dce633244e7c24",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.str-el",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-19T10:30:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "78a7c07d795151ec93d62938ddc7b28bf46c19a257727ee7948618325e02e4b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.3883",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}