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We report a detailed ab initio investigation on hydrogen bonding, geometry, electronic structure, and lattice dynamics of ice under a large high pressure range, including the ice X phase (55-380GPa), the previous theoretically proposed…
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We study the structural and electronic properties of phase III of solid hydrogen using accurate many-electron theories and compare to state-of-the-art experimental findings. The atomic structures of phase III modelled by C2/c-24 crystals…
The ammonia dimer (NH3)2 has been investigated using high--level ab initio quantum chemistry methods and density functional theory (DFT). The structure and energetics of important isomers is obtained to unprecedented accuracy without…
We resolved the hydrogen bond transition from the mode of ordinary water to its hydration in terms of its phonon stiffness (vibration frequency shift), order of fluctuation (line width), and number fraction (phonon abundance) upon chage…
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Aromatic compounds form an unusual kind of hydrogen bond with water and ammonia molecules, known as the $\pi$-hydrogen bond. In this work, we report ab initio path integral molecular dynamics simulations enhanced by machine-learning…
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We investigate the structural properties of liquid water at near ambient conditions using first-principles molecular dynamics simulations based on a semilocal density functional augmented with nonlocal van der Waals interactions. The…
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An accurate ab initio theory of the H-bond structure of liquid water requires a high-level exchange correlation approximation from density functional theory. Based on the liquid structures modeled by ab initio molecular dynamics by using…
In this experiment liquid water is subject to an inhomogeneous electric field (${\nabla}^2 E_a {\approx} 10^{10} \frac{V}{m^2}$ ) using a high voltage (20 kV) point-plane electrode system. With interferometry it was found that the…
New X-ray and neutron diffraction experiments have been performed on ethanol-water mixtures as a function of decreasing temperature, so that such diffraction data are now available over the entire composition range. Extensive molecular…
Hydrogen-bond forms a pair of asymmetric, coupled, H-bridged oscillators with ultra-short-range interactions and memory. hydrogen bond cooperative relaxation and the associated binding electron entrapment and nonbonding electron…