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Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 195701 (2002) [4 pages]

Interplay between Time-Temperature Transformation and the Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Water

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Masako Yamada1, Stefano Mossa1,2, H. Eugene Stanley1, and Francesco Sciortino2
1Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
2Dipartimento di Fisica, INFM UdR and INFM Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185, Roma, Italy

Received 6 February 2002; published 26 April 2002

We study the new water model proposed by Mahoney and Jorgensen [J. Chem. Phys. 112, 8910 (2000)], which is closer to real water than previously proposed classical pairwise additive potentials. We simulate the model in a wide range of deeply supercooled states and find (i) the existence of a nonmonotonic “nose-shaped” temperature of maximum density line and a nonreentrant spinodal, (ii) the presence of a low-temperature phase transition, (iii) the free evolution of bulk water to ice, and (iv) the time-temperature-transformation curves at different densities.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.195701
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.195701
PACS:
64.70.Ja, 02.70.Ns