Pith Number

pith:DKU5UJGS

pith:2026:DKU5UJGSHYB32S76E6VGJ5TABP

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Flexoelectricity-driven softening of bend elasticity leads to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a polar fluid

Aitor Erkoreka, Alenka Mertelj, Calum J. Gibb, Ema Han\v{z}el, Jordan Hobbs, Josu Martinez-Perdiguero, Luka Cmok, Nerea Sebasti\'an, Richard J. Mandle

arxiv:2602.15687 v3 · 2026-02-17 · cond-mat.soft

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DKU5UJGSHYB32S76E6VGJ5TABP}

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On the emergence of molecular tilt in a ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal with broken director-inversion symmetry

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First computed	2026-06-19T16:12:51.490245Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1aa9da24d23e03bd4bfe27aa64f6600bc4a303a8388977be54bf3948929bab29

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.15687 · arxiv_version: 2602.15687v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.15687 · pith_short_12: DKU5UJGSHYB3 · pith_short_16: DKU5UJGSHYB32S76 · pith_short_8: DKU5UJGS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DKU5UJGSHYB32S76E6VGJ5TABP \
  | 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: 1aa9da24d23e03bd4bfe27aa64f6600bc4a303a8388977be54bf3948929bab29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8eda17cda4e84f375e32008b726f860357cf608d6db7faee8ec57b217da57888",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.soft",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-17T16:11:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "03b25bf2aa8518eb33b3743c31a258a789c9468974d1564e371f57c5e1c1f0e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.15687",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}