Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2005-10-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
25 Pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.73.041505
Recent experiments on liquid water show collective dipole orientation fluctuations dramatically slower then expected (with relaxation time $>$ 50 ns) [D. P. Shelton, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 72}, 020201(R) (2005)]. Molecular dynamics simulations of SPC/E water show large vortex-like structure of dipole field at ambient conditions surviving over 300 ps [J. Higo at al. PNAS, {\bf 98} 5961 (2001)]. Both results disagree with previous results on water dipoles in similar conditions, for which autocorrelation times are a few ps. Motivated by these recent results, we study the water dipole reorientation using molecular dynamics simulations in bulk SPC/E water for temperatures ranging from ambient 300 K down to the deep supercooled region of the phase diagram at 210 K. First, we calculate the dipole autocorrelation function and find that our simulations are well-described by a stretched exponential decay, from which we calculate the {\it orientational autocorrelation time} $\tau_{a}$. Second, we define a second characteristic time, namely the time required for the randomization of molecular dipole orientation, the {\it self-dipole randomization time} $\tau_{r}$, which is an upper limit on $\tau_{a}$; we find that $\tau_{r}\approx 5 \tau_{a}$. Third, to check if there are correlated domains of dipoles in water which have large relaxation times compared to the individual dipoles, we calculate the randomization time $\tau_{\rm box}$ of the site-dipole field, the net dipole moment formed by a set of molecules belonging to a box of edge $L_{\rm box}$. We find that the {\it site-dipole randomization time} $\tau_{\rm box}\approx 2.5 \tau_{a}$ for $L_{\rm box}\approx 3$\AA, i.e. it is shorter than the same quantity calculated for the self-dipole. Finally, we find that the orientational correlation length is short even at low $T$.
Buldyrev Sergey V.
Franzese Giancarlo
Kumar Pradeep P.
Stanley Eugene H.
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