Pith Number

pith:5VCXTUN2

pith:2009:5VCXTUN2VJOVUUNTEI7I6CLQI4

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Giant Modal Gain, Amplified Surface Plasmon Polariton Propagation, and Slowing Down of Energy Velocity in a Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Structure

C.Z. Ning, D.B. Li

arxiv:0906.1270 v1 · 2009-06-06 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{5VCXTUN2VJOVUUNTEI7I6CLQI4}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:13:28.515285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed4579d1baaa5d5a51b3223e8f09704712e45f938e67af28544074d170af4344

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.1270 · arxiv_version: 0906.1270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.1270 · pith_short_12: 5VCXTUN2VJOV · pith_short_16: 5VCXTUN2VJOVUUNT · pith_short_8: 5VCXTUN2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5VCXTUN2VJOVUUNTEI7I6CLQI4 \
  | 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: ed4579d1baaa5d5a51b3223e8f09704712e45f938e67af28544074d170af4344

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17a0cc6861a7df86f3461b2feea32f4fc8ed4e62cee0b9726203ef293a586435",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-06T12:23:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c0afeba26cf7b2990c90d761bf1d2545ac46580313941f613c56f043382f1c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.1270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}