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Water's unique hydrogen-bonding network and anomalous properties pose significant challenges for accurately modeling its structural, thermodynamic, and transport behavior across varied conditions. Although machine-learned potentials have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Ke Xu , Ting Liang , Nan Xu , Penghua Ying , Shunda Chen , Ning Wei , Jianbin Xu , Zheyong Fan

After melting, at ambient pressure, the density of water continues to increase with temperature until it reaches a maximum around 4 {\deg}C. For nearly a century, this phenomenon has been qualitatively attributed to a mixture of ordered and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yizhi Song , Renxi Liu , Chunyi Zhang , Yifan Li , Biswajit Santra , Mohan Chen , Michael L. Klein , Xifan Wu

The behavior of liquid water under an electric field is a crucial phenomenon in science and engineering. However, its detailed description at a microscopic level is difficult to achieve experimentally. Here we report on the first ab initio…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-05-16 A. Marco Saitta , Franz Saija , Paolo V. Giaquinta

A large number of water models exists for molecular simulations. They differ in the ability to reproduce specific features of real water instead of others, like the correct temperature for the density maximum or the diffusion coefficient.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-04 Roman Shevchuk , Diego Prada-Gracia , Francesco Rao

This is a new book of quantum Hierarchic theory of condensed matter, general for liquids and solids, developed by this author during 20 years and its numerous applications. Computer program, based on new theory, was used for simulations of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-06-06 Alex Kaivarainen

The noble elements constitute the simplest group of atoms. At low temperatures or high pressures they freeze into the face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure (except helium). We perform molecular dynamics using the recently proposed…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-05 Aditya N. Singh , Jeppe C. Dyre , Ulf R. Pedersen

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

The prevalence of heterogeneous nucleation in nature was explained qualitatively by the classical theory for heterogeneous nucleation established over more than 60 years ago, but the quantitative validity and the key conclusions of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Raffaela Cabriolu , Tianshu Li

The spectral features of water clusters provide important information on their structure and dynamics and can assist in deciphering the nature of the local environment of aqueous solutions in a variety of different conditions. Accurately…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 T. Baird , R. Vuilleumier , S. Bonella

We present a model to describe thermophysical and optical properties of two-temperature systems consisted of heated electrons and cold ions in a solid lattice that occur during ultrafast heating experiments. Our model is based on ab initio…

The accuracy of the training data limits the accuracy of bulk properties from machine-learned potentials. For example, hybrid functionals or wave-function-based quantum chemical methods are readily available for cluster data but effectively…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Viktor Zaverkin , David Holzmüller , Robin Schuldt , Johannes Kästner

Of the three basic states of matter, liquid is perhaps the most complex. While its flow properties are described by fluid mechanics, its thermodynamic properties are often neglected, and for many years it was widely believed that a general…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-31 K. Trachenko

Calculating liquid energy and heat capacity in general form is an open problem in condensed matter physics. We develop a recent approach to liquids from the solid state by accounting for the contribution of anharmonicity and thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Dima Bolmatov , Kostya Trachenko

Although well-researched as a prototype Hamiltonian for strongly interacting quantum systems, the Bose-Hubbard model has not so far been explored as a fluid system with waterlike anomalies. In this work we show that this model supports, in…

We investigated the complete thermodynamic cycle of aluminium nanoparticles through classical molecular dynamics simulations, spanning a wide size range from 200 atoms to 11000 atoms. The aluminium-aluminium interactions are modelled using…

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Hydrodynamic theories effectively describe many-body systems out of equilibrium in terms of a few macroscopic parameters. However, such hydrodynamic parameters are difficult to derive from microscopics. Seldom is this challenge more…

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…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-16 Chang Q Sun

Accounting for electrons and nuclei simultaneously is a powerful capability of ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). However, AIMD is often unable to accurately reproduce properties of systems such as water due to inaccuracies in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Andrew D. White , Chris Knight , Glen M. Hocky , Gregory A. Voth

We develop new variational principles to study stability and equilibrium of axisymmetric flows. We show that there is an infinite number of steady state solutions. We show that these steady states maximize a (non-universal) $H$-function. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Bérengère Dubrulle , Pierre-Henri Chavanis