Pith Number

pith:55I6Z7KI

pith:2012:55I6Z7KI4XMIICFLAKADKPBJLU

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Demonstration of zero optical backscattering from single nanoparticles

Gary Wicks, Juan Jose Saenz, Lukas Novotny, Manish Jain, Steven Person, Zachary Lapin

arxiv:1212.2793 v1 · 2012-12-12 · physics.optics · cond-mat.mes-hall

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\pithnumber{55I6Z7KI4XMIICFLAKADKPBJLU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:29:11.889545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef51ecfd48e5d88408ab0280353c295d3968b595cf02e6da8eb637c5ee2dfa4e

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2793 · arxiv_version: 1212.2793v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2793 · pith_short_12: 55I6Z7KI4XMI · pith_short_16: 55I6Z7KI4XMIICFL · pith_short_8: 55I6Z7KI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/55I6Z7KI4XMIICFLAKADKPBJLU \
  | 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: ef51ecfd48e5d88408ab0280353c295d3968b595cf02e6da8eb637c5ee2dfa4e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c80071be522440377c219f7c1606f3a487aee843c92b689e6da818edea8b03a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-12T12:36:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c3be110aa185166916ac24cf37c9d655758d12e5728a5267fc5d1d094719648e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2793",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}