The super 0-brane and GS superstring actions on AdS 2 × S 2 background with 2-form flux are constructed by supercoset approach. We find the super 0-brane action contains two parameters which are interpreted as the electric and magnetic charges of the super 0-brane. The obtained super 0-brane action describes the BPS saturated dyonic superparticle moving on AdS 2 × S 2 background. The WZ action contains the required coupling with 2-form flux. For GS superstring, we find the string action on AdS 2 × S 2 takes the same form as those in AdS 3 × S 3 and AdS 5 × S 5 with RR field background.

The interaction of methanethiol molecules CH3SH with the Au(111) surface is investigated, and it is found for the first time that the S-H bond remains intact when the methanethiol molecules are adsorbed on the regular Au(111) surface. However, it breaks if defects are present in the Au(111) surface. At low coverage, the fcc region is favored for S atom adsorption, but at saturated coverage the adsorption energies at various sites are almost iso-energetic. The presented calculations show that a methanethiol layer on the regular Au(111) surface does not dimerize.

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We construct D-branes in a left-right asymmetrically gauged WZW model, with the gauge subgroup embedded differently on the left and the right of the group element. The symmetry-preserving boundary conditions for the group-valued field g are described, and the corresponding action is found. When the subgroup H = U(1), we can implement T-duality on the axially gauged WZW action; an orbifold of the vectorially gauged theory is produced. For the parafermion SU(2)/U(1) coset model, a σ-model is obtained with vanishing gauge field on D-branes. We show that a boundary condition surviving from the SU(2) parent theory characterizes D-branes in the parafermion theory, determining the shape of A-branes. The gauge field on B-branes is obtained from the boundary condition for A-branes, by the orbifold construction and T-duality. These gauge fields stabilize the B-branes.