Pith Number

pith:VS7XJAIP

pith:2017:VS7XJAIPVCBPM6ORF2GOYS3ZQ7

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Diffusion of Janus Particles in Bacterial Suspensions: Second-Order Phase Transition and Counterintuitive Directional Propulsion

Guolong Zhu, Li-Tang Yan, Pengyu Chen, Yufei Cao, Zihan Huang

arxiv:1702.04183 v2 · 2017-02-14 · physics.bio-ph · cond-mat.soft · q-bio.CB

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\pithnumber{VS7XJAIPVCBPM6ORF2GOYS3ZQ7}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:19.626250Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acbf74810fa882f679d12e8cec4b7987faadd44caf2d46e769c69b4058e860f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.04183 · arxiv_version: 1702.04183v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.04183 · pith_short_12: VS7XJAIPVCBP · pith_short_16: VS7XJAIPVCBPM6OR · pith_short_8: VS7XJAIP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VS7XJAIPVCBPM6ORF2GOYS3ZQ7 \
  | 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: acbf74810fa882f679d12e8cec4b7987faadd44caf2d46e769c69b4058e860f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8872851646e8845bb0c25342cd9cb421b8294cd8bbc67d4767ac2c620a56b957",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.soft",
      "q-bio.CB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.bio-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-14T12:54:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9465f6697971d5b38a8dd502f9b58de2c2b064cf9e57cde6db512f9f901f1fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.04183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}