Pith Number

pith:VFKHWCIV

pith:1996:VFKHWCIVNP7G6ECWMNLIZWRP4V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Irreversibility, Mechanical Entanglement and Thermal Melting in Superconducting Vortex Crystals with Point Impurities

David R. Nelson (Harvard University), Deniz Ertas

arxiv:cond-mat/9607142 v1 · 1996-07-19 · cond-mat · supr-con

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFKHWCIVNP7G6ECWMNLIZWRP4V}

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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	2026-05-18T01:39:34.132634Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9547b09156bfe6f105663568cda2fe560ac75ffd1e4c33b9cf0c1290a35b044

Aliases

arxiv: cond-mat/9607142 · arxiv_version: cond-mat/9607142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9607142 · pith_short_12: VFKHWCIVNP7G · pith_short_16: VFKHWCIVNP7G6ECW · pith_short_8: VFKHWCIV

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/VFKHWCIVNP7G6ECWMNLIZWRP4V \
  | 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: a9547b09156bfe6f105663568cda2fe560ac75ffd1e4c33b9cf0c1290a35b044

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a7e6cffc4526b2fe841df2fd5e222db2d1af699cef658d27aa2d595e4ed4943",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "supr-con"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat",
    "submitted_at": "1996-07-19T21:35:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8f89fdea29b87b9177fd66edd80d0437e6433aa3b5443f85f4d6be45027afe3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cond-mat/9607142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}