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The heat capacity of the solid Kr-CD4 (13% CD4) solution has been investigated. It is shown that the temperature dependence of the heat capacity Crot of the rotational subsystem in this solution is radically different from the corresponding…
A negative contribution of the CH4 impurity to the thermal expansion of the solution has been revealed in dilatometric studies of solid Kr+0.76% CH4, Kr+5.25% CH4 and Kr+10.5% CH4 solutions at 1-23 K. It is shown that the negative…
The heat capacity C(T) of the interstitial solid solution (CH4)0.4C60 has been investigated in the temperature interval 1.4-120 K. The contribution of CH4 molecules to the heat capacity has been separated. The contributions of CH4 and CD4…
The dynamic interaction of a quantum rotor with its crystalline environment has been studied by measurement of the thermal conductivity of solid Kr1_c(CH4)_c solutions at c = 0.05-0.75 in the temperature region from 2 up to 40K. The thermal…
Cross sections for the rotational (de)excitation of CO by ground state para- and ortho-H_2 are obtained using quantum scattering calculations for collision energies between 1 and 520 cm^{-1}. A new CO-H_2 potential energy surface is…
The heat capacity of a solid solution of 1% p-D2 and 0.25% Ne in p-H2 has been investigated in the interval DT = 0.5 - 4 K. An excess heat capacity DCNe of this solution exceeding the heat capacity of the 1% p-D2 in p-H2 solution has been…
The low-temperature (up to about 100K) collisional (de)excitation cross sections are computed using the full coupled-channel (CC) quantum dynamics for both Li$_2$ and Li$_2^+$ molecular targets in collision with $^4$He. The interaction…
The excess electrons mobility $\mu$ has been measured recently in liquid mixtures of Kr and CH$_{4}$ as a function of the electric field up to $E\approx 10^{4} V/cm $ and of the CH$_{4}$ concentration $x$ up to $x \approx 10 % ,$ at…
Rates for rotational excitation of HC3N by collisions with He atoms and H2 molecules are computed for kinetic temperatures in the range 5-20K and 5-100K, respectively. These rates are obtained from extensive quantum and quasi-classical…
The calculation of the He4 energy and specific heat is carried out in a wide temperature range within the two-time temperature Green functions approach. The approximation improving the random phase approximation is developed providing the…
We present a detailed analysis of the molecular kinetics of CHCl$_3$ in a range of temperatures covering the solid and liquid phases. Using nuclear quadrupolar resonance we determine the relaxation times for the molecular rotations in solid…
Rotational transitions in molecular hydrogen collisions are computed. The two most recently developed potential energy surfaces for the H2-H2 system are used from the following works: 1) A.I. Boothroyd, P.G. Martin, W.J. Keogh, M.J.…
In this paper, with the corresponding formula for internal energy obtained in Ref. [J. Phys. Stud. {\bf 11}, 259 (2007)], combined with a simple calculation of the effective mass of interacting Bose particles, the behavior of the heat…
The thermal conductivity of solid SF6, CHCI3, C6H6, and CCl4 was investigated by the linear-flow method under saturated vapor pressures in the temperature range from 80 K to the corresponding melting temperatures and then recalculated for a…
Kinetic temperature is a fundamental parameter in molecular clouds. Symmetric top molecules, such as NH$_3$ and CH$_3$CCH, are often used as thermometers. However, at high temperatures, NH$_3$(2,2) can be collisionally excited to…
We have examined the influence of rotation on the potential energy and the transport coefficients of the collective motion (friction and mass coefficients). For axially symmetric deformation of nucleus Th-224 we have found that at…
Comprehensive rotation-vibration line lists are presented for the two main isotopologues of methyl chloride, $^{12}$CH$_3{}^{35}$Cl and $^{12}$CH$_3{}^{37}$Cl. The line lists, OYT-35 and OYT-37, are suitable for temperatures up to…
We aim to obtain accurate rate coefficients for the collisional excitation of CH+ by He for high gas temperatures. The ab initio coupled-cluster [CCSD(T)] approximation was used to compute the interaction potential energy. Cross sections…
Passively cooling neutron stars (NSs) should reach undetectably low surface temperatures $T_s<10^4$ K in less than $10^7$ yr. However, HST observations have revealed likely thermal UV emission from the Gyr-old millisecond pulsars…
Rate coefficients for rotational transitions in H_2 induced by H_2 impact are presented. Extensive quantum mechanical coupled-channel calculations based on a recently published (H_2)_2 potential energy surface were performed. The potential…