Quantum effects in liquid water and ice: Model dependence
- 4 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 125 (5), 054512
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2238861
Abstract
This paper explores the influence of choice of potential model on the quantum effects observed in liquid water and ice. This study utilizes standard rigid models and a more formal context for the rigid-body centroid molecular dynamics methodology used to perform the quantum simulations is provided. Quantum and classical molecular dynamics simulations are carried out for liquid water and ice Ih at 298 and 220 K, respectively, with the simple point charge/extended and TIP4P-Ew water models. The results obtained for equilibrium and dynamical properties are compared with those recently reported on TIP4P [L. Hernandez de la Pena and P. G. Kusalik, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 5992 (2004); L. Hernandez de la Pena et al., J. Chem. Phys 123, 144506 (2005)]. For the liquid, an energy shift of about 8% and an average molecular uncertainty of about 11 degrees were found independently of the water model. The self-diffusion coefficient consistently increases by more than 50% when going from the classical to the quantum system and quantum dynamics are found to reproduce the experimental isotopic shifts with the models examined. The ice results compare remarkably well with those previously reported for the TIP4P water model; they confirm that quantum effects are considerable and that the quantum mechanical uncertainty and the energy shifts due to quantization are smaller in ice than in liquid water. The relevance of these findings in the context of the construction of water models is briefly discussed.Keywords
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