A short-range metastable defect in the double layer ice
Abstract
Although the phase of water has extensively investigated whether there exists a defect distorting only locally the structure still under debate. Here we report a localized 5775 defect phase presented in the double layer ice on the Au (111) surface, which is a metastable structure with 5- and 7-membered rings compared with a perfect hexagonal one. Without altering the total number of the hydrogen bonds of the ice, the defect only introduces 0.08 {\AA} molecular displacement and 3.27% interaction energy change outside the defected area. Such defect also exists without Au support but causes a larger lattice relaxation or smaller interaction energy change. The excessively high barrier as well as the low quantum tunneling and thermodynamic probabilities hinder the formation of the defect by post-grown isomerization from the perfect to the defected structure. This finding indicates that the defected ice is stable, and the defect can be formed during the ice growth stage.
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@article{arxiv.2009.04879,
title = {A short-range metastable defect in the double layer ice},
author = {Zhiyuan Zhang and Yu Zhu and Le Jin and Xinrui Yang and Yanchao Wang and Chang Q. Sun and Zhigang Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04879},
year = {2020}
}
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12 pages, 2 figures