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In molecular liquids such as water, time-delayed influences between microscopic or mesoscopic variables are typically probed using time-correlation functions, which are symmetric under detailed balance and therefore blind to dynamical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Leon Huet , Vittorio Del Tatto , Debarshi Banerjee , Alessandro Laio , Ali A. Hassanali

Water hydrating phospholipid membranes determine their stability and function, as well as their interaction with other molecules. In this article we study, using all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, the rotational and translational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Carles Calero , H. Eugene Stanley , Giancarlo Franzese

Absorption spectra of liquid water at 300 K are calculated from both classical and density functional theory molecular dynamics simulation data, which together span from 1 MHz to hundreds of THz, agreeing well with experimental data…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Shane Carlson , Florian N. Brünig , Philip Loche , Douwe Jan Bonthuis , Roland R. Netz

Energy dissipation in water is very fast and more efficient than in many other liquids. This behavior is commonly attributed to the intermolecular interactions associated with hydrogen bonding. Here, we investigate the dynamic energy flow…

We study hydrogen-bond dynamics in liquid water at low temperatures using molecular dynamics simulations. We find that bond lifetime (``fast dynamics'') has Arrhenius temperature dependence. We also calculate the bond correlation function…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Francis W. Starr , Johannes K. Nielsen , H. Eugene Stanley

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

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to study the temperature-dependent dynamics and structures of the hydration shells of elastin-like and collagen-like peptides. For both model peptides, it is consistently observed that, upon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-23 Michael Vogel

We investigate the occurrence of waterlike thermodynamic and dynamic anomalous behavior in a one dimensional lattice gas model. The system thermodynamics is obtained using the transfer matrix technique and anomalies on density and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-11 Marco Aurélio A. Barbosa , Fernando Vito Barbosa , Fernando Albuquerque de Oliveira

The unique structural properties of interfacial water are at the heart of a vast range of important processes in electrochemistry, climate science, and biophysics. At interfaces, water molecules exhibit preferential orientations and an…

The properties of the hydrogen bonds in ethylammonium nitrate are analyzed by using molecular dynamics simulations and infrared as well as nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. Ethylammonium nitrate features a flexible three-dimensional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Tobias Zentel , Viviane Overbeck , Dirk Michalik , Oliver Kühn , Ralf Ludwig

Over times shorter than that required for relaxation of enthalpy, a liquid can exhibit striking heterogeneities. The picture of these heterogeneities is complex with transient patches of rigidity, irregular yet persistent, intersected by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-30 Peter Harrowell

A structural transformation in water upon compression was recently observed at the temperature $T=277$~K in the vicinity of the pressure $p \approx 2\;000$~Atm [R.M. Khusnutdinoff, A.V. Mokshin, J. Non-Cryst. Solids \textbf{357}, 1677…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-03 Ramil M. Khusnutdinoff , Anatolii V. Mokshin

We present a series of ab-initio calculations of spectroscopic properties of liquid water at ambient conditions. Our results show that all available theoretical and experimental evidence is consistent with the standard model of the liquid…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 David Prendergast , Giulia Galli

We use molecular dynamics computer simulations and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments to investigate the dynamics of water at interfaces of molecular roughness and low mobility. We find that, when approaching such interfaces, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-22 Markus Rosenstihl , Kerstin Kämpf , Felix Klameth , Matthias Sattig , Michael Vogel

We report an analysis of the stretching peak appearing in the IR experimental spectra of liquid water. In the literature, ATR-IR spectroscopic measurements were repeatedly performed in a wide range of temperature and gave rise to a lively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-03 A. De Ninno , E. Del Giudice , L. Gamberale , A. Congiu Castellano

Path-integral molecular dynamics simulations and electronic structure-based energy decomposition analysis (EDA) are employed to connect hydrogen bond (H-bond) strength, its asymmetry, and the total delocalization energy at the water/air…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Frederik Zysk , Ana Vila Verde , Naveen K. Kaliannan , Kristof Karhan , Thomas D. Kühne

The splitting of the principal peak in the structure factor of liquid water is commonly interpreted as evidence of a competition between two distinct local environments. Here, we show that this peak splitting arises from medium-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-12 Zoé Faure Beaulieu , Volker L. Deringer , Fausto Martelli

The prototypical Hydrogen bond in water dimer and Hydrogen bonds in the protonated water dimer, in other small molecules, in water cyclic clusters, and in ice, covering a wide range of bond strengths, are theoretically investigated by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

Biological membranes are host to proteins and molecules which may form domain-like structures resulting in spatially-varying material properties. Vesicles with such heterogeneous membranes can exhibit intricate shapes at equilibrium and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-22 Prerna Gera , David Salac , Saverio E. Spagnolie

The resistance of hydrogen-bond networks to ambient flow in water produces viscoelectric stresses and contributes to electrostrictive pressure. Within Onsager's nonequilibrium thermodynamic framework, a lattice-gas description of aqueous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-16 Pramodt Srinivasula