Pith Number

pith:NXN6WSSA

pith:2019:NXN6WSSAOCOEIAZVBY3733VGX6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nonhermitian defect states from lifetime differences

Henning Schomerus, Mart\'i Bosch, Martina Hentschel, Simon Malzard

arxiv:1908.08738 v2 · 2019-08-23 · physics.optics

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NXN6WSSAOCOEIAZVBY3733VGX6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T00:23:23.721791Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ddbeb4a40709c4403350e37fdeea6bf85d62ff728c6272bdfaf8ecdbf7ee354

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.08738 · arxiv_version: 1908.08738v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.08738 · pith_short_12: NXN6WSSAOCOE · pith_short_16: NXN6WSSAOCOEIAZV · pith_short_8: NXN6WSSA

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NXN6WSSAOCOEIAZVBY3733VGX6 \
  | 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: 6ddbeb4a40709c4403350e37fdeea6bf85d62ff728c6272bdfaf8ecdbf7ee354

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d2dcc23f041d4617a79d6b66879b47a322a6ae473a216825ba7790e28369d47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-23T09:47:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fec98e9f2079b733986b4e9f047ade54a3e68d427a813de22ea272593aff790"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.08738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}