Water and the Many-Body Imagination
Biological Physics
2026-08-02 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
An electron crosses the cold Fermi sea. The sea recoils, screens, remembers. It returns the electron dressed: a quasiparticle with a mass, a lifetime, and a Green function. This was Nozi\`eres' lesson. We carry it to water. Electrons become dipoles; the Fermi sea becomes a hydrogen-bonded polar liquid. We ask the same question: can the collective modes of water live long enough and reach far enough for molecular machines to interact and synchronize?
Cite
@article{arxiv.2608.01097,
title = {Water and the Many-Body Imagination},
author = {Albert Libchaber and Tsvi Tlusty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.01097},
year = {2026}
}