Continuous condensation in nanogrooves

Anyon condensation and continuous topological phase transitions in non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall states.

We find a series of possible continuous quantum phase transitions between fractional quantum Hall states at the same filling fraction in two-component quantum Hall systems. These can be driven by tuning the interlayer tunneling and/or interlayer repulsion. One side of the transition is the Halperin (p,p,p-3) Abelian two-component state, while the other side is the non-Abelian Z4 parafermion (Re...

Vector condensation in QCD

The properties of the QCD vacuum at quark chemical potentials on the order of the pion mass and at zero temperature are by now quite well understood. The insight into this non-perturbative regime of QCD is obtained using chiral perturbation theory at nonzero quark chemical potentials [1–8]. The results apply not only to ordinary QCD but also to two color QCD and to QCD with quarks in the adjoin...

Nanocarbon condensation in detonation

We analyze the definition of the Gibbs free energy of a nanoparticle in a reactive fluid environment, and propose an approach for predicting the size of carbon nanoparticles produced by the detonation of carbon-rich explosives that regards their condensation as a nucleation process and takes into account absolute entropy effects of the cluster population. The results are consistent with experim...

Condensation in a Model

Continuous Droplet Removal upon Dropwise Condensation of Humid Air on a Hydrophobic Micropatterned Surface

Combination of two physical phenomena, capillary pressure gradient and wettability gradient, allows a simple two-step fabrication process that yields a reliable hydrophobic self-cleaning condenser surface. The surface is fabricated with specific microscopic topography and further treatment with a chemically inert low-surface-energy material. This process does not require growth of nanofeatures ...