Pith Number

pith:RDIWLPCD

pith:2011:RDIWLPCDWU6YIDFNJUCZ5MCXFZ

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Broadband time-reversal of optical pulses using a switchable photonic-crystal mirror

John B. Pendry, Yonatan Sivan

arxiv:1105.5670 v1 · 2011-05-27 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{RDIWLPCDWU6YIDFNJUCZ5MCXFZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:01:46.916216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88d165bc43b53d840cad4d059eb0572e5bf4863ee403486b00cc98f49acaa98b

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.5670 · arxiv_version: 1105.5670v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.5670 · pith_short_12: RDIWLPCDWU6Y · pith_short_16: RDIWLPCDWU6YIDFN · pith_short_8: RDIWLPCD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RDIWLPCDWU6YIDFNJUCZ5MCXFZ \
  | 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: 88d165bc43b53d840cad4d059eb0572e5bf4863ee403486b00cc98f49acaa98b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "549c5773873136ce2807edee1b89d7330999c97972a63a2ee5abc3dd4fef6044",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-27T23:36:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca87671f46d5e0ed44d781e7efc6a65476dabc721f9247db6ae3658ab58ea748"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.5670",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}