Pith Number

pith:QH4HQLMR

pith:2011:QH4HQLMRVSXYN2N3YFXQFPZUXK

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Impact of Step Defects on Surface States of Topological Insulators

C. S. Ting, Degang Zhang

arxiv:1110.3722 v1 · 2011-10-17 · cond-mat.mes-hall

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QH4HQLMRVSXYN2N3YFXQFPZUXK}

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:11.483389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

81f8782d91acaf86e9bbc16f02bf34ba914ef10d69e80579625f9cd87c905362

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.3722 · arxiv_version: 1110.3722v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.3722 · pith_short_12: QH4HQLMRVSXY · pith_short_16: QH4HQLMRVSXYN2N3 · pith_short_8: QH4HQLMR

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/QH4HQLMRVSXYN2N3YFXQFPZUXK \
  | 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: 81f8782d91acaf86e9bbc16f02bf34ba914ef10d69e80579625f9cd87c905362

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d079d83cddb080dacd4b0e92c003c4fe1c70264dc2fd193db3adf7c77c7605c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-17T16:27:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "474bd4799b04fb2b310056e702bd49e73f2f427ff34d5ebed8eb136c18e433d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.3722",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}