The vertical excitation energy for the lowest valence pi-->pi(*) transition of cyclopentadiene is investigated. Using a combination of high-level theoretical methods and spectroscopic simulations, the vertical separation at the ground state geometry is estimated to be 5.43+/-0.05 eV. This value is intermediate between those calculated with coupled-cluster and multireference perturbation theory ...

The momentum and energy of phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate are measured directly from a time-of-flight image by computerized tomography. We find that the same atoms that carry the momentum of the excitation also carry the excitation energy. The measured energy is in agreement with the Bogoliubov spectrum. Hydrodynamic simulations are performed which confirm our observation.

One mechanism used by plants to protect against damage from excess sunlight is called nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ). Triggered by low pH in the thylakoid lumen, NPQ leads to conversion of excess excitation energy in the antenna system to heat before it can initiate production of harmful chemical species by photosynthetic reaction centers. Here we report a synthetic hexad molecule that functi...

: We investigate the effects of coupling between a molecular exciton, which consists of an electron and a hole in a molecule, and a surface plasmon (exciton-plasmon coupling) on the electron transitions of the molecule using nonequilibrium Green's function method. Due to the exciton-plasmon coupling, excitation channels of the molecule arise in the energy range lower than the electronic excitat...

The excitation energy transfer between light-harvesting complex I (LH-I) and the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) of the purple bacterium Rhodobacter (Rb.) sphaeroides is investigated on the basis of the atomic level structures of the two proteins, assuming a ring-shaped model for LH-I. Rates of excitation energy transfer are calculated, based on Förster theory. The LH-I and RC electronic ex...

New method for dissociation of diatomic molecule based on nonperiodic excitation generated by energy-feedback control mechanism is proposed. The energyfeedback control uses frequency-energy (FE) relation of the natural oscillations to fulfill the resonance conditions at any time of excitation. Efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by the problem of dissociation of hydrogen fluoride ...

Excitation functions of 8 Li(, n), (d, t) and 12 B(, n) reactions were directly measured in the energy region of astrophysical interest using low-energy radioactive nuclear beams of 8 Li and 12 B. Each measured excitation function is strongly affected by one or more resonances through a compound nucleus. The measured excitation functions are presented. Dominant r-process paths through 8 Li at...