This study reveals that, in strong coulomb coupling regime, bending a straight and fully overcharged DNA (up to its ‘maximal acceptance’ by multivalent cations) to a circle releases some of the adsorbed (correlated) cations but still remains fully overcharged. This phenomenon seems to be inherent to the minimum energy state of a DNA. By definition, the total electrostatic potential energy of a ...

Recently, Bauke and Mertens conjectured that the local statistics of energies in random spin systems with discrete spin space should, in most circumstances, be the same as in the random energy model. We show that this conjecture holds true as well for directed polymers in random environment. We also show that, under certain conditions, this conjecture holds for directed polymers even if energy ...

Recently, Bauke and Mertens conjectured that the local statistics of energies in random spin systems with discrete spin space should, in most circumstances, be the same as in the random energy model. We show that this conjecture holds true as well for directed polymers in random environment. We also show that, under certain conditions, this conjecture holds for directed polymers even if energy ...

We present a detailed comparison between the first order Stark-effect induced Gailitis resonance in e+ + H (n = 2) and the second order Stark-effect induced resonance in e + Ps (n = 1). Common characteristics as well as differences of these resonances will be identified. These results will be used to assess the presence of Gailitis resonances in the scattering of proton on the ground state of 7...

Excited states in Ba were studied with the Ba( d, p)Ba reaction at 24.0MeV, with a polarized deuteron beam using the Munich magnetic spectrograph Q3D. Many unambiguous spin-parity assignments were made up to an excitation energy of 2.2MeV, which allow a detailed comparison with different theoretical calculations, such as the interacting boson-fermion model and the shell model. PACS. 21.10.-k Pr...

Recently, Bauke and Mertens conjectured that the local statistics of energies in random spin systems with discrete spin space should in most circumstances be the same as in the random energy model. Here we give necessary conditions for this hypothesis to be true, which we show to hold in wide classes of examples: short range spin glasses and mean field spin glasses of the SK type. We also show ...

For renormalizable models a method is presented to unambiguously compute the energy that is carried by localized field configurations (solitons). A variational approach for the total energy is utilized to search for soliton configurations. As an example a 1 + 1 dimensional model is considered. The quantum energy of configurations that are translationally invariant for a subset of coordinates is...

The most accurate way to measure the energy levels for the O ii 2p 3 ground configuration has been from the forbidden lines in planetary nebulae. We present an analysis of modern planetary nebula data that nicely constrain the splitting within the 2 D term and the separation of this term from the ground 4 S 3/2 level. We extend this method to H ii regions using high-resolution spectroscopy of t...