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With a view to a better understanding of the influence of atomic quantum delocalisation effects on the phase behaviour of water, path integral simulations have been undertaken for almost all of the known ice phases using the TIP4P/2005…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-15 Carl McBride , Carlos Vega , Eva G. Noya , Rafael Ramirez , Luis M. Sese

Liquid water exhibits anomalous behavior in the supercooled region. A popular hypothesis to explain supercooled water's anomalies is the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid transition terminating at a critical point. The hypothesized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 V. P. Voronov , V. E. Podnek , M. A. Anisimov

Relations between the thermodynamics and dynamics of supercooled liquids approaching a glass transition have been proposed over many years. The potential energy surface of model liquids has been increasingly studied since it provides a…

Liquid water exhibits several important anomalous properties in the vicinity of the melting temperature ($T_{\mathrm{m}}$) of ice Ih, including a higher density than ice and a density maximum at 4~$^{\circ}$C. Experimentally, an isotope…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yifan Li , Bingjia Yang , Chunyi Zhang , Axel Gomez , Pinchen Xie , Yixiao Chen , Pablo M. Piaggi , Roberto Car

Using an activation mechanism reproducing facilitation, a dynamic phase transition triggered by a few active molecules was recently found in a supercooled model liquid. Prompted by this finding we investigate the presence of a similar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-14 Quoc Tuan Truong , Victor Teboul

We investigate the structural similarities between liquid water and 53 ices, including 20 knowncrystalline phases. We base such similarity comparison on the local environments that consist of atoms within a certain cutoff radius of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Bartomeu Monserrat , Jan Gerit Brandenburg , Edgar A. Engel , Bingqing Cheng

Supercooled liquids give rise, by homogeneous nucleation, to solid superclusters acting as building blocks of glass, ultrastable glass, and glacial glass phases before being crystallized. Liquid-to-liquid phase transitions begin to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-26 Robert F. Tournier

Any structural transformation of water is sensitive to an external electric field, since water molecules have dipole moments. We study influence of external uniform electric field on crystallization of supercooled water enclosed between two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-05 Ramil M. Khusnutdinoff , Anatolii V. Mokshin

Highly supercooled liquids with soft-core potentials are studied via molecular dynamics simulations in two and three dimensions in quiescent and sheared conditions.We may define bonds between neighboring particle pairs unambiguously owing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

We study a highly supercooled two-dimensional fluid mixture via molecular dynamics simulation. We follow bond breakage events among particle pairs, which occur on the scale of the $\alpha$ relaxation time $\tau_{\alpha}$. Large scale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

We perform lengthy molecular dynamics simulations of the SPC/E model of water to investigate the dynamics under pressure at many temperatures and compare with experimental measurements. We calculate the isochrones of the diffusion constant…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Francis W. Starr , Stephen Harrington , Francesco Sciortino , H. Eugene Stanley

The model Tip4p/{\epsilon} for water is tested for the presence of thermodynamic and dy- namic anomalies. Molecular dynamic simulations for this model were performed and we show that for this system the density versus temperature at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-12 Raul Fuentes-Azcatl , Marcia C. Barbosa

Liquid water is one of the most studied substances, yet many of its properties are difficult to rationalize. The uniqueness of water is rooted in the dynamic network of hydrogen-bonded molecules with relaxation time constants of about one…

Using molecular dynamics simulations we study the dynamics of a water-like TIP5P model of water in hydrophilic and hydrophobic confinement. We find that in case of extreme nanocofinement such that there is only one molecular layer of water…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-14 Pradeep Kumar

Water is perhaps the most simulated liquid. Recently three water models have been developed following the adaptive force matching (AFM) method that provides excellent predictions of water properties with only electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Hongyi Hu , Zhonghua Ma , Feng Wang

Liquid polymorphism is an intriguing phenomenon which has been found in a few single-component systems, the most famous being water. By supercooling liquid Te to more than 130 K below its melting point and performing simultaneous…

In order to study the heating process of water by the microwaves of 2.5-20GHz frequencies, we have performed molecular dynamics simulations by adopting a non-polarized water model that have fixed point charges on rigid-body molecules. All…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Motohiko Tanaka , Motoyasu Sato

Tackling the low-temperature fate of supercooled liquids is challenging due to the immense timescales involved, which prevent equilibration and lead to the operational glass transition. Relating glassy behaviour to an underlying,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-16 Francesco Turci , C. Patrick Royall , Thomas Speck

A widely accepted phenomenological rule states that solids with free surfaces cannot be overheated. In this work we discuss this statement critically under the light of the statistical thermodynamics of interfacial roughening transitions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-08 Lukasz Baran , Pablo Llombart , Eva G. Noya , L. G. MacDowell

We numerically study a nondisordered lattice spin system with a first order liquid-crystal transition, as a model for supercooled liquids and glasses. Below the melting temperature the system can be kept in the metastable liquid phase, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrea Cavagna , Irene Giardina , Tomas S. Grigera