Using the concept of tunneling two level systems we explain the reduction of rotational inertia of disordered solid He observed in the torsional oscillator experiments. The key point is a peculiar quantum phenomenon of momentum deficit for two level systems in moving solids. We show that an unusual state which is essentially different from both normal and superfluid solid states can be realized...

In this paper the problem of variable admittance control in human-robot cooperation tasks is investigated, considering rotational motion of the robot’s end-effector. A Fuzzy Model Reference Learning algorithm is used to determine online the appropriate virtual damping of the admittance controller with partial state representation of the system. The learning algorithm is trained according to the...

The dynamics of the hydrogen abstraction reaction between methane and hydroxyl radical is investigated using an initial state selected time-dependent wave packet method within a six-dimensional model. The ab initio calibrated global potential energy surface of Espinosa-García and Corchado was used. Integral cross sections from several low-lying rotational states of both reactants have been obta...

Vestibular responses play an important role in maintaining gaze and posture stability during rotational motion. Previous studies suggest that these responses are state dependent, their expression varying with the environmental and locomotor conditions of the animal. In this study, we simulated an ethologically relevant state in the laboratory to study state-dependent vestibular responses in bir...

We have performed a crossed molecular beam velocity-map ion imaging study of state-to-state rotational energy transfer of NO(A2Σ+, v = 0, N = 0, j = 0.5) in collisions with N2 and have measured rotational angular momentum polarization dependent images of product NO(A) rotational levels N' = 3 and 5-11 for collisions at an average energy of 797 cm-1. We present an extension of our previously pub...

The energy partitioning in the UV photodissociation of N(2)O is investigated by means of quantum mechanical wave packet and classical trajectory calculations using recently calculated potential energy surfaces. Vibrational excitation of N(2) is weak at the onset of the absorption spectrum, but becomes stronger with increasing photon energy. Since the NNO equilibrium angles in the ground and the...

Cytosine (C) and guanine (G) form Watson-Crick-type complexes in low-dielectric solvents. Dynamics of complexes between 3',5'-bis(triisopropylsilyl) derivatives of 2'-deoxynucleosides in deuteriochloroform were studied with 300-MHz 'H NMR. We have determined rates of rotation about each amino bond of the C:G base pair. From the temperature dependence of the rates of amino group rotation, rotati...

Vibrational level structure in the S(0) (1)A(g) and S(1) (1)B(3u) states of pyrene was investigated through analysis of fluorescence excitation spectra and dispersed fluorescence spectra for single vibronic level excitation in a supersonic jet and through referring to the results of ab initio theoretical calculation. The vibrational energies are very similar in the both states. We found broad s...

Rotational relaxation of OH molecules in the -II electronic ground state has been observed to occur in collisions with water molecules with gas kinetic probability. It causes an additional contribution to the already well known sources of interference when LIF is used to monitor tropospheric OH. As the laser generated OH is originally produced mostly in high rotational states, the fast relaxati...