Interplay of local hydrogen-bonding and long-ranged dipolar forces in simulations of confined water

Details Interplay of local hydrogen-bonding and long-ranged dipolar forces in simulations of confined water Interplay of local hydrogen-bonding and long-ranged dipolar forces in simulations of confined water

2008-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/0809.2844v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Submitted to PNAS

Scientific paper

10.1073/pnas.0807623105

Spherical truncations of Coulomb interactions in standard models for water permit efficient molecular simulations and can give remarkably accurate results for the structure of the uniform liquid. However truncations are known to produce significant errors in nonuniform systems, particularly for electrostatic properties. Local molecular field (LMF) theory corrects such truncations by use of an effective or restructured electrostatic potential that accounts for effects of the remaining long-ranged interactions through a density-weighted mean field average and satisfies a modified Poisson's equation defined with a Gaussian-smoothed charge density. We apply LMF theory to three simple molecular systems that exhibit different aspects of the failure of a naive application of spherical truncations -- water confined between hydrophobic walls, water confined between atomically-corrugated hydrophilic walls, and water confined between hydrophobic walls with an applied electric field. Spherical truncations of 1/r fail spectacularly for the final system in particular, and LMF theory corrects the failings for all three. Further, LMF theory provides a more intuitive way to understand the balance between local hydrogen bonding and longer-ranged electrostatics in molecular simulations involving water.

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