Same and interconvertible high-pressure ice phases
arXiv:2203.12897 · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32374-1
Abstract
Most experimentally known high-pressure ice phases have a body-centred cubic (bcc) oxygen lattice. Our atomistic simulations show that, amongst these bcc ice phases, ices VII, VII' and X are the same thermodynamic phase under different conditions, whereas superionic ice VII'' has a first-order phase boundary with ice VII'. Moreover, at about 300 GPa, ice X transforms into the Pbcm phase with a sharp structural change but no apparent activation barrier, whilst at higher pressures the barrier gradually increases. Our study thus clarifies the phase behaviour of the high-pressure insulating ices and reveals peculiar solid-solid transition mechanisms not known in other systems.
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