The mechanisms by which peptides and proteins form ordered aggregates are not well understood. Here we focus on the physicochemical properties of amino acids that favor ordered aggregation and suggest a parameter-free model that is able to predict the change of aggregation rates over a large set of natural sequences. Furthermore, the results of the parameter-free model correlate well with the a...

We report a strong discontinuous orientational transition (anchoring transition) of liquid-crystal molecules with a large transverse dipole moment. A perfluoropolymer was used as an alignment layer and the transition was observed from planar to homeotropic with decreasing temperature in the nematic phase. Conversely a gradual variation in tilt angle from homeotropic to conical was observed in a...

Regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene)s with chain lengths varying from 5 to 100 monomers are synthesized. Poly(3-hexylthiophene)s show in solution an unexpectedly significant second-order nonlinear optical response. The increase in transition dipole moment upon oligomerisation causes the significant second-order nonlinear optical response.

By providing a suitable definition of the electromagnetic field off the Higgs vacuum, we show that within the sphaleron there is a monopole-antimonopole pair with quantized charges, and a loop of electromagnetic current. On integration of the relevant charges and currents over the interior in the limit of small ΘW , we recover the standard formula for the sphaleron dipole moment. a) Present add...

For a class of linear neutral type systems the problem of eigenvalues and eigenvectors assignment is investigated, i.e. finding the system which has the given spectrum and almost all, in some sense, eigenvectors. The result is used for the analysis of the critical number of solvability of a vector moment problem.

Potential energy curves for the 28 lowest LambdaSigma states and 49 Omega states of RbCs are obtained from large-scale multireference configuration interaction calculations using both spin-averaged and two-component spin-orbit energy-consistent effective core potentials. Spectroscopic properties of all states are compared across available data in literature to date. Variations of the permanent ...

We present the result of our most recent search for T violation in 205Tl, which is interpreted in terms of an electric dipole moment of the electron d(e). We find d(e) = (6.9 +/- 7.4)x10(-28)e cm, which yields an upper limit /d(e)/ < or = 1.6x10(-27)e cm with 90% confidence. The present apparatus is a major upgrade of the atomic beam magnetic-resonance device used to set the previous limit on d...

We consider the Abel Equation dy dz = p(z)y2 + q(z)y3 as an equation on the complex plane with p, q – rational functions. The center problem for this equation (which is closely related to the classical center problem for polynomial vector fields on the plane) is to find conditions on p and q under which all the solutions y(z) are univalued functions along the circle |z| = 1. In [3] we have show...

The intensity of water absorption in the region of the solar spectrum plays a dominant role in atmospheric energy balance and hence strongly influences climate. Significant controversy exists over how to model this absorption accurately. We report dipole moment measurements of highly vibrationally excited water, which provide stringent tests of intensities determined by other means. Our measure...

There are three essentially different types of (closed) intervals. Either two end-points are finite, one endpoint is finite, or no end-points are finite. In the last case the interval is simply R and in the first two cases one can think of [0, 1] and [0,∞). For historical reasons the moment problem on [0,∞) is called the Stieltjes moment problem and the moment problem on R is called the Hamburg...