In this paper, a control strategy to reduce the vibrational response of adjacent buildings under seismic excitation is presented. The proposed strategy combines passive linking elements with an active decentralized H∞ control system. The overall active-passive control system admits decentralized design and operation, and achieves an excellent vibrational reduction when the active control system...

The methods producing cold molecules from cold atoms tend to leave molecular ensembles with substantial residual internal energy. For instance, cesium molecules initially formed via photoassociation of cold cesium atoms are in several vibrational levels nu of the electronic ground state. We applied a broadband femtosecond laser that redistributes the vibrational population in the ground state v...

We study analytically the Full Counting Statistics of the charge transport through a nanosystem consisting of a few electronic levels weakly coupled to a discrete vibrational mode. In the limit of large transport voltage bias the cumulant generating function can be evaluated explicitly based solely on the intuitive physical arguments and classical master equation description of the vibration mo...

Using picosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging we have studied the intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) dynamics that occur following the excitation of the 35 level which lies 2068 cm above the S1 origin in p-difluorobenzene. Our technique, which has superior time resolution to that of earlier studies but retains sufficient energy resolution to identify the behavior of i...

Potential energy surfaces for the ground and excited electronic states responsible for the Hartley continuum of ozone are used to obtain quadratic, cubic, and quartic force constants. Vibrational dependence of rotational constants to sixth order is calculated by perturbation theory. The spectroscopic constants enable computation of rovibronic energy levels. Overlap of ground state and excited s...

Ab initio calculations that explicitly include spin-orbit interactions are reported for the NeCl2 system of electronic states. A surprising curve crossing is observed for the C2v, T-shaped geometry. Away from the C2v geometry, the states mix, as expected. On the basis of these new results we propose a new mechanism for electronic energy transfer from highly vibrationally excited levels of the B...

Rate constants for dissociative electron attachment to Cl 2 have been measured from 300 to 1100 K in a high-temperature flowing-afterglow Langmuir-probe apparatus. R-matrix calculations have been carried out which compare well with the present measurements with possible deviation at the highest temperatures. The attachment rate constants do not show Arrhenius behavior. The temperature dependenc...

Using picosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging we have studied the intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) dynamics that occur following the excitation of the 35 level which lies 2068 cm above the S1 origin in p-difluorobenzene. Our technique, which has superior time resolution to that of earlier studies but retains sufficient energy resolution to identify the behavior of i...