Pith Number

pith:6XHAR4Z5

pith:2016:6XHAR4Z54OYZZXW4CPAP5UA23R

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Design of NbN superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with enhanced infrared photon detection efficiency

Andreas Engel, Jelmer J. Renema, Michiel J. A. de Dood, Qiang Wang

arxiv:1612.02840 v2 · 2016-12-08 · physics.ins-det · cond-mat.supr-con · physics.optics · quant-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:19.838557Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5ce08f33de3b19cdedc13c0fed01adc53f2ecfb5a1764e05e811b6813ee8fc1

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02840 · arxiv_version: 1612.02840v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02840 · pith_short_12: 6XHAR4Z54OYZ · pith_short_16: 6XHAR4Z54OYZZXW4 · pith_short_8: 6XHAR4Z5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6XHAR4Z54OYZZXW4CPAP5UA23R \
  | 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: f5ce08f33de3b19cdedc13c0fed01adc53f2ecfb5a1764e05e811b6813ee8fc1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "458c0bc2df8e4b0881bc9b10f978acb8ddd20e87d80fe6b13b4ea1517ac0f997",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.supr-con",
      "physics.optics",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-08T21:06:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f838214f7211bc33421d48fd3427720303220cd59d125508d3feac416fafa54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02840",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}