Pith Number

pith:LMBNQHZE

pith:2016:LMBNQHZESKKWRR7UZX37EIBUSV

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Efficient silicon metasurfaces for visible light

Beimeng Yao, Christopher P Reardon, Daan Stellinga, Hanlin Fang, Jin Liu, Juntao Li, Kezheng Li, Lidan Zhou, Rongbin Su, Thomas F Krauss, Xuehua Wang, Zhenpeng Zhou

arxiv:1609.06400 v1 · 2016-09-21 · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LMBNQHZESKKWRR7UZX37EIBUSV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:52.049235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b02d81f24929568c7f4cdf7f2203495784b50a164f89ccd97532b02c11afbce

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.06400 · arxiv_version: 1609.06400v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.06400 · pith_short_12: LMBNQHZESKKW · pith_short_16: LMBNQHZESKKWRR7U · pith_short_8: LMBNQHZE

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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/LMBNQHZESKKWRR7UZX37EIBUSV \
  | 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: 5b02d81f24929568c7f4cdf7f2203495784b50a164f89ccd97532b02c11afbce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cdc534e95d53024f1cac0cb5658ff04f4646f33a86ed35a7874e1d71052d6ab3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-21T02:04:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad4a437bda5feb8a3159c462d02fe63dd1cd2d94cde1a76b95bd6685dc75530f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.06400",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}