Temperature-induced topological differentiation of the two high-density amorphous ices

Autor: Antonino Marco Saitta, Th. Strässle, Stefan Klotz
Přispěvatelé: Institut de minéralogie et de physique des milieux condensés (IMPMC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: EPL-Europhysics Letters
EPL-Europhysics Letters, European Physical Society/EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/IOP Publishing, 2006, 74, pp.445-451. ⟨10.1209/epl/i2006-10016-x⟩
EPL-Europhysics Letters, 2006, 74, pp.445-451. ⟨10.1209/epl/i2006-10016-x⟩
ISSN: 0295-5075
1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2006-10016-x⟩
Popis: The high-density (HDA) and the very high-density (VHDA) amorphous forms of ice are studied through computer simulations. The structural transformations involve, at different stages of compression, two different subgroups of second-shell neighbors. The interplay between these subgroups is found to be crucial in the mechanism of high-pressure differentiation between HDA and VHDA: in HDA they are more separated and the first subgroup is locked in the anti-tetrahedral, ice-VII-like positions all along the downstroke to ambient pressure. In VHDA the annealing under pressure triggers instead the merging of the two subgroups through a counter-intuitive outward displacement of one subgroup of neighbors, resulting then in a local decrease of the coordination number, a more random-close-packed arrangement and a different equation of state.
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