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Reciprocal Nucleopeptides as the Ancestral Darwinian Self-Replicator
Eleanor F. Banwell, Bernard Piette, Anne Taormina +1
Even the simplest organisms are too complex to have spontaneously arisen fully-formed, yet precursors to first life must have emerged ab initio from their environment. A watershed…
A generalised Davydov-Scott model for polarons in linear peptide chains
Jingxi Luo, Bernard Piette
We present a one-parameter family of mathematical models describing the dynamics of polarons in linear periodic structures such as polypeptides. By tuning the parameter, we are abl…
Dynamic response of open cell dry foams
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Peter J. Hine, B. M. A. G. Piette
We study the mechanical response of an open cell dry foam subjected to periodic forcing using experiments and theory. Using the measurements of the static and dynamic stress-strain…
Phase Transition and Anisotropic Deformations of Neutron Star Matter
S. G. Nelmes, B. M. A. G. Piette
The Skyrme model is a low energy, effective field theory for QCD which when coupled to a gravitational field provides an ideal semi-classical model to describe neutron stars. We us…
Skyrme Model with Different Mass Terms
Bernard Piette, Wojtek J. Zakrzewski
We consider a one parameter family of mass terms for the Skyrme model that disfavours shell-like configurations for multi-baryon classical solutions. We argue that a model with suc…
Dynamics of the topological structures in inhomogeneous media
L. A. Ferreira, B. Piette, W. J. Zakrzewski
We present a general review of the dynamics of topological solitons in 1 and 2 dimensions and then discuss some recent work on the scattering of various solitonic objects (such as…