Tuning the liquid-liquid transition by modulating the hydrogen bond angular flexibility in a model for water
arXiv:1505.06432 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.015701
Abstract
We propose a simple extension of the well known ST2 model for water [F.H. Stillinger and A. Rahman, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 60}, 1545 (1974)] that allows for a continuous modification of the hydrogen bond angular flexibility. We show that the bond flexibility affects the relative thermodynamic stability of the liquid and of the hexagonal (or cubic) ice. On increasing flexibility, the liquid-liquid critical point, which in the original ST2 model is located in the no-man's land (i. e. the region where ice is the thermodynamically stable phase) progressively moves to a temperature where the liquid is more stable than ice. Our study definitively proves that the liquid-liquid transition in ST2 is a genuine phenomenon, of high relevance in all tetrahedral network-forming liquids, including water.
Accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett
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