Effective condensation coefficient on a nanoparticle

On gaugino condensation in the effective theory

We analyze the gaugino condensation in the effective theory for N=1 SU(N) Supersymmetric QCD with Nf flavors. It is known that taking the vacuum expectation value of the matter field to be infinite, we can show that gaugino condensation can occur. At such a limit we should consider only pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. But when we include an interaction term of order O( 1 v ), the situati...

A Condensation-Ordering Mechanism in Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Peptide Aggregation

Nanoparticles introduced in living cells are capable of strongly promoting the aggregation of peptides and proteins. We use here molecular dynamics simulations to characterise in detail the process by which nanoparticle surfaces catalyse the self-assembly of peptides into fibrillar structures. The simulation of a system of hundreds of peptides over the millisecond timescale enables us to show t...

S-duality Constraints on Effective Potentials for Gaugino Condensation

We clarify the role of approximate S-duality in effective supergravity theories that are the low energy limits of string theories, and show how this partial symmetry may be used to constrain effective lagrangians for gaugino condensation. This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy u...

Influences of surfactant and nanoparticle assembly on effective interfacial tensions.

We have studied assembly at air-water and liquid-liquid interfaces with an emphasis on systems containing both surfactants and nanoparticles. Anionic surfactants, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and non-ionic surfactants, Triton X-100 and tetraethylene glycol alkyl ethers (C(8)E(4), C(12)E(4) and C(14)E(4)), effectively decrease the surface tension of air-water interfaces. The inclusion of negativ...

Analysis of Laminar Film Condensation on a Vertical Plate