We calculate the free energy of SU(N) gauge theories on the lattice, to three loops. Our result, combined with Monte Carlo data for the average plaquette, gives a more precise estimate of the gluonic condensate.

Solubility of 2,6-diphenyl-4-(2,4,6-triphenylpyridinium-l-yl) phenolate, commonly known as Reichardt' s betaine dye and a ketocyanine dye has been determined in binary solvent mixtures and in cationic and anionic micellar media. In all the binary mixtures the standard molar free energy of solution, as given by log Sl2 where 512 is the solubility in the binary mixture, cannot be represented by t...

Critical dynamics in various glass models including those described by mode coupling theory is described by scale-invariant dynamical equations with a single non-universal quantity, i.e. the socalled parameter exponent that determines all the dynamical critical exponents. We show that these equations follow from the structure of the static replicated Gibbs free energy near the critical point. I...

It is shown that the free energy of C2v clusters favors a transformation from a closed cage (fullerene) structure at low temperatures to a more open corrannulene structure and then to a ring structure as the temperature is increased. The corrannulene structure can be thought of as a fragment of C60 and is an efficient precursor to its formation. These results are applicable to other carbon clus...

One can tell the author is a good teacher, and hence a clear writer, from this sentence on page 59: "Since we are unable at present to present a satisfactory mechanism for oxidative phosphorylation, it will be instructive to show another, perhaps similar, process by which the free energy change of an oxidation reaction is used to 'drive' a phosphorylation reaction." Many others facing this dile...

A new hydrophobic score will be presented in this paper for detecting native-like folds from a large set of decoy structures. A recent paper (B. D. Silverman, PNAS 98, 4996, 2001) had revealed that for globular proteins there exists a relatively universal constant of 0.74 for a hydrophobic ratio, which is defined as the ratio of radii from the protein centroid at which the second order hydropho...

The dilaton free energy density in external static gravitational field is found. We use the real time formulation of the finite temperature field theory and the free energy density is computed to the first order of the string parameter α′. We obtain the thermal corrections to the α′ modified Einstein gravity action. PACS numbers: 4.60.+n, 11.17.+y, 05.70.Ce Typeset using REVTEX 1

We consider directed random polymers in (d+1) dimensions with nearly gamma i.i.d. disorder. We study the partition function ZN,ω and establish exponential concentration of logZN,ω about its mean on the subgaussian scale √ N/ logN . This is used to show that E[logZN,ω] differs from N times the free energy by an amount which is also subgaussian (i.e. o( √ N)), specifically O( √ N logN log logN).

“Staging free energy” is a term introduced to describe the necessary investment of free energy into a thermodynamic system to allow certain near equilibrium processes to proceed in a desired direction and in finite time (Chapter 4). Such processes may seem—if viewed detached from their surroundings—to be truly reversible. However, if one views them together with the changes occurring in their e...

It has long been known that there is a relation between boundary sineGordon theory and thermodynamics of charge neutral two-component Coulomb plasma on a unit circle. On the other hand, recently it was found that open string worldsheet description of brane decay can be related to a sequence of points of thermodynamic equilibrium of one-component plasma. Here we consider a different decay proces...