According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory, Yang and Qi are driving forces of biological activities in the human body. Based on the crucial role of the mitochondrion in energy metabolism, we propose an extended view of Yang and Qi in the context of mitochondrion-driven cellular and body function. It is of interest that the clinical manifestations of Yang/Qi deficiencies in TCM resem...

By defining an extended BRST operator that includes the chiral part of N=2 global supersymmetry, it is shown that the full N=2 offshell Super Yang Mills Action can be represented as an exact BRST term. The action written in this form suggests that the fields of the Topological Yang Mills theory can be defined in terms of composite fields of supersymmetry ghosts and N=2 fields in a natural way. ...

By comparision with numerical results in the maximal Abelian projection of lattice Yang-Mills theory, it is argued that the nonperturbative dynamics of Yang Mills theory can be described by a set of fields that take their values in the coset space SU(2)/U(1). The Yang-Mills connection is parameterized in a special way to separate the dependence on the coset field. The coset field is then regard...

In the fall of 2015, Peidong Yang, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, received a phone call from the MacArthur Foundation. The caller asked if Yang was alone. Having just finished his lunch, Yang hurried to his office. The caller identified himself as the director of the Foundation, and told Yang of his selection for a MacArthur fellowship. The grant recognized Ya...

We construct a new supertwistor space suited for establishing a Penrose-Ward transform between certain bundles over this space and solutions to the N = 8 super Yang-Mills equations in three dimensions. This mini-superambitwistor space is obtained by dimensional reduction of the superambitwistor space, the standard superextension of the ambitwistor space. We discuss in detail the construction of...

We proved a uniqueness theorem of tangent connections for a Yang–Mills connection with an isolated singularity with a quadratic growth of the curvature at the singularity. We also obtained control over the rate of the asymptotic convergence of the connection to the tangent connection if furthermore the connection is stationary or the tangent connection is integrable, with a stronger result in t...

It is a great honour and pleasure for me to participate in the conference, dedicated to 85 years celebration for Professor C. N. Yang. The influence of C. N. Yang on my own research is very strong. Two of my directions — quantization of the Yang-Mills field and theory of solitons stem from his works. I am proud to remind, that the term “Yang-Baxter equation” was introduced by L. Takhtajan and m...

Lee-Yang zeros are points on the complex plane of physical parameters where the partition function of a system vanishes and hence the free energy diverges. Lee-Yang zeros are ubiquitous in many-body systems and fully characterize their thermodynamics. Notwithstanding their fundamental importance, Lee-Yang zeros have never been observed in experiments, due to the intrinsic difficulty that they w...

Peng Wang, Jia Qi, Zhengming Liu, Yang Liao, Wei Chu, Ya Cheng 1 State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China. 2 School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai 200031, China. 3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. 4 State Key Labor...

We construct embedded closed minimal surfaces in the round three-sphere S3(1), resembling two parallel copies of the Clifford torus, joined by m2 small catenoidal bridges symmetrically arranged along a square lattice of points on the torus.