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The existence of a 'crossover region' in glass-forming liquids has long been considered as a general phenomenon that is as important as the glass transition. One potential origin for the crossover behavior is a liquid-to-liquid phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-14 S. Lan , M. Blodgett , K. F. Kelton , X. -L. Wang

Motivated by an experimental finding on the density of supercooled water at high pressure [O. Mishima, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 144503 (2010)] we performed atomistic molecular dynamics simulations study of bulk water in the isothermal-isobaric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-10 Solomon F. Duki , Mesfin Tsige

We consider experimental data on the dynamics of water (1) in glass-forming aqueous mixtures with glass transition temperature Tg approaching the putative Tg=136 K of water from above and below, (2) in confined spaces of nanometer in size…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Capaccioli , K. L. Ngai

A key feature of the crystallization of supercooled water confined in an applied static electric field is that the structural order here is determined not only by usual thermodynamic and kinematic factors (degree of supercooling, difference…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-10 Ramil M. Khusnutdinoff , Anatolii V. Mokshin

Water can be vitrified if it is cooled at rates exceeding $3*10^5$ K/s. This makes it possible to outrun crystallization in so-called no man's land, a range of deeply supercooled temperatures where water crystallizes rapidly. One would…

We review the effect of water anomalies on the properties of low temperature water. When supercooled, liquids dynamical properties change drastically. Supercooled liquids undergo an at least exponential decrease of their diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-14 V. Teboul , A. P. Kerasidou

The origin of water's anomalous behavior remains a central open problem in the physical sciences and is often attributed to a liquid-liquid transition (LLT) between high- and low-density liquid states deep in the supercooled regime.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-02 Florian Pabst , Ali Hassanali

Supercooled liquid state is a particularly interesting state in that it exhibits several unusual physical properties. To illustrate, the liquid displays a single peak relaxation frequency at high temperatures, which splits into $\alpha$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-17 Wenlong Jiang

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…

Water shows intriguing thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies in the supercooled liquid state. One possible explanation of the origin of these anomalies lies in the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid phase transition (LLPT) between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Rakesh S. Singh , John W. Biddle , Pablo G. Debenedetti , Mikhail A. Anisimov

Twenty years ago Poole et al. (Nature 360, 324, 1992) suggested that the anomalous properties of supercooled water may be caused by a critical point that terminates a line of liquid-liquid separation of lower-density and higher-density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 V. Holten , M. A. Anisimov

Water shows numerous thermodynamic, dynamic, and structural anomalies. Recent experiments [Eichler et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 134101 (2025)], based on measurements of shear and bulk viscosities of liquid water up to 1.6 GPa, have reported…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-27 José Martín-Roca , Alberto Zaragoza , Frédéric Caupin , Chantal Valeriani

The possibility of observing a glass transition in water before crystallisation occurs has been debated vigorously but inconclusively over five decades [1,2]. For two decades a glass transition at 136K [2,3] was accepted but this transition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. -Z. Yue , C. A. Angell

The temperature scale of simple water models in general does not coincide with the natural one. Therefore, in order to make a meaningful evaluation of different water models a temperature rescaling is necessary. In this paper we introduce a…

Using a general model for the equilibrium dynamics of supercooled liquids, I compute from molecular properties the emergent length and time scales that govern the nonequilibrium relaxation behavior of amorphous ice prepared by rapid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 David T. Limmer

Below the melting temperature $T_m$ crystals are the stable phase of typical elemental or molecular systems. However, cooling down a liquid below $T_m$, crystallization is anything but inevitable. The liquid can be supercooled, eventually…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-03-07 M. Zanatta , L. Cormier , L. Hennet , C. Petrillo , F. Sacchetti

Surface freezing is a phenomenon in which crystallization is enhanced at a vapor-liquid interface. In some systems, such as $n$-alkanes, this enhancement is dramatic, and results in the formation of a crystalline layer at the free interface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-13 Amir Haji Akbari , Pablo G. Debenedetti

The static and dynamical properties of heavy water have been studied at ambient conditions with extensive Car-Parrinello molecular-dynamics simulations in the canonical ensemble, with temperatures ranging between 325 K and 400 K.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H-L. Sit , Nicola Marzari

The anomalous behavior of liquid water is widely associated with a liquid-liquid phase transition between high- and low-density states in the supercooled regime. At the microscopic level, tetrahedral hydrogen-bond networks govern these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-04 Kohei Yoshikawa , Kokoro Shikata , Kang Kim , Nobuyuki Matubayasi

We use molecular dynamics simulations in two dimensions to investigate the possibility that a core-softened potential can reproduce static and dynamic anomalies found experimentally in liquid water: (i) the increase in specific volume upon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Scala , M. Reza Sadr-Lahijany , N. Giovambattista , S. V. Buldyrev , H. E. Stanley