scholarly journals Perspective: Crossing the Widom line in no man’s land: Experiments, simulations, and the location of the liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water

2018 ◽  
Vol 149 (14) ◽  
pp. 140901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Hestand ◽  
J. L. Skinner
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 452
Author(s):  
Г.С. Бордонский

AbstractThe microwave absorption of fresh ice subjected to plastic deformation when changing temperature from 0 to –60°C has been measured. A decrease in the losses of radiation transmission through ice at frequencies of 32 and 125 GHz with extremum at a temperature of –45°C was found. This temperature corresponds to the point at atmospheric pressure at the Widom line, which starts from a hypothetic second critical point in pressure–temperature phase space. The used measuring technique makes it possible to obtain layers of deeply supercooled water into ice and study the position of the Widom line and second critical point in phase space.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prithwish K. Nandi ◽  
Christian J. Burnham ◽  
Zdenek Futera ◽  
Niall J. English

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (38) ◽  
pp. 9444-9449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Shi ◽  
John Russo ◽  
Hajime Tanaka

Liquids can be broadly classified into two categories, fragile and strong ones, depending on how their dynamical properties change with temperature. The dynamics of a strong liquid obey the Arrhenius law, whereas the fragile one displays a super-Arrhenius law, with a much steeper slowing down upon cooling. Recently, however, it was discovered that many materials such as water, oxides, and metals do not obey this simple classification, apparently exhibiting a fragile-to-strong transition far above Tg. Such a transition is particularly well known for water, and it is now regarded as one of water’s most important anomalies. This phenomenon has been attributed to either an unusual glass transition behavior or the crossing of a Widom line emanating from a liquid–liquid critical point. Here by computer simulations of two popular water models and through analyses of experimental data, we show that the emergent fragile-to-strong transition is actually a crossover between two Arrhenius regimes with different activation energies, which can be naturally explained by a two-state description of the dynamics. Our finding provides insight into the fragile-to-strong transition observed in a wide class of materials.


2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Connor R. C. Buhariwalla ◽  
Richard K. Bowles ◽  
Ivan Saika-Voivod ◽  
Francesco Sciortino ◽  
Peter H. Poole

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (14) ◽  
pp. e2022884118
Author(s):  
Loni Kringle ◽  
Wyatt A. Thornley ◽  
Bruce D. Kay ◽  
Greg A. Kimmel

The origin of water’s anomalous properties has been debated for decades. Resolution of the problem is hindered by a lack of experimental data in a crucial region of temperatures, T, and pressures where supercooled water rapidly crystallizes—a region often referred to as “no man’s land.” A recently developed technique where water is heated and cooled at rates greater than 109 K/s now enables experiments in this region. Here, it is used to investigate the structural relaxation and crystallization of deeply supercooled water for 170 K < T < 260 K. Water’s relaxation toward a new equilibrium structure depends on its initial structure with hyperquenched glassy water (HQW) typically relaxing more quickly than low-density amorphous solid water (LDA). For HQW and T > 230 K, simple exponential relaxation kinetics is observed. For HQW at lower temperatures, increasingly nonexponential relaxation is observed, which is consistent with the dynamics expected on a rough potential energy landscape. For LDA, approximately exponential relaxation is observed for T > 230 K and T < 200 K, with nonexponential relaxation only at intermediate temperatures. At all temperatures, water’s structure can be reproduced by a linear combination of two, local structural motifs, and we show that a simple model accounts for the complex kinetics within this context. The relaxation time, τrel, is always shorter than the crystallization time, τxtal. For HQW, the ratio, τxtal/τrel, goes through a minimum at ∼198 K where the ratio is about 60.


2007 ◽  
Vol 104 (23) ◽  
pp. 9575-9579 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Kumar ◽  
S. V. Buldyrev ◽  
S. R. Becker ◽  
P. H. Poole ◽  
F. W. Starr ◽  
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