The first goal of vibration-transit (V-T) theory was to construct a tractable approximate Hamiltonian from which the equilibrium thermodynamic properties of monatomic liquids can be calculated. The Hamiltonian for vibrations in an infinitely extended harmonic random valley, together with the universal multiplicity of such valleys, gives an accurate first-principles account of the measured therm...

The terahertz and infrared frequency vibration modes of room-temperature ionic liquids with imidazolium cations and halogen anions were extensively investigated. There is an intermolecular vibrational mode between the imidazolium ring of an imidazolium cation, a halogen atomic anion with a large absorption coefficient and a broad bandwidth in the low THz frequency region (13-130 cm-1), the intr...

ABsTRAcr The vibrational and optical coherence responses of bacteriochlomphylla (BChla) in solution and within the bacterial reaction centa protein of Rh. Sphaaoides ate reported. Fourier transform analysis of the optically impulsively p q a r a i vibrational coherences of BChla in solution show features in the 350-1ux)cm~ Speceal range while the analogous response of the aaxsny bacterioChlmphy...

The gallium(III) complex of orotic acid (HOA) was synthesized and its structure was determined by means of analytical and spectral analyses. Detailed vibrational analysis of HOA, sodium salt of HOA (NaOA) and Ga(III)-OA systems based on both the calculated and experimental spectra confi rmed the suggested metal-ligand binding mode. Signifi cant differences in the IR and Raman spectra of the com...

Vibronically resolved S1 ↔ S0 electronic spectra of a doubly hydrogen-bonded mixed dimer between acetic acid and 3-fluorobenzoic acid have been investigated by measuring laser-induced fluorescence excitation and dispersed fluorescence spectra in a cold supersonic jet expansion. Two isomeric species of the dimer have been identified, and the measurements show that their vibronic spectral pattern...

The study on local modes as a molecule's eigen-vibration is still an attracting topic [1,2]. However, a new trend becomes more popular: people are more interested in the vibration properties of molecules under interactions with external laser fields for practical usages such as bond-selective photodesorption [3, 4] and vibrationally mediated dissociation [ 5 7 ] . We have already studied the po...

We report the first measurement of the vibrationaland rotational-state distributions in the NCO fragment resulting from photolysis of HNCO. Recent studies have drawn conclusions about the photochemistry of HNCO and the vibrational distribution in the NCO fragment from observations of the kinetic energy distribution of the H atom produced in this photolysis; however, there has been no direct obs...

We have shown that electromagnetically induced transparency can be achieved by control-probe interferometry using two delayed phase-locked ultrashort pulses. Two vibrational wavepackets on the excited state, excited by two delayed phase-locked ultrashort pulses, interfere constructively or destructively leading to enhancement or suppression of absorption to a selective set of vibrational levels...

The IR absorption and time-resolved IR spectroscopy of the OD stretch mode of HDO in water was successfully used to study osmolyte effects on water H-bonding network. Protecting osmolytes such as sorbitol and trimethylglycine (TMG) make the vibrational OD stretch band red-shifted, whereas urea affects the OD band marginally. Furthermore, we recently showed that, even though sorbitol and TMG cau...