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Snapshots of the Fluctuating Hydrogen Bond Network in Liquid Water on the Sub-Femtosecond Timescale with Vibrational Resonant Inelastic x-ray Scattering.

Pietzsch, A ; Hennies, Franz LU ; Miedema, P S ; Kennedy, B ; Schlappa, J ; Schmitt, T ; Strocov, V N and Föhlisch, A (2015) In Physical Review Letters 114(8).
Abstract
Liquid water molecules interact strongly with each other, forming a fluctuating hydrogen bond network and thereby giving rise to the anomalous phase diagram of liquid water. Consequently, symmetric and asymmetric water molecules have been found in the picosecond time average with IR and optical Raman spectroscopy. With subnatural linewidth resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at vibrational resolution, we take sub-femtosecond snapshots of the electronic and structural properties of water molecules in the hydrogen bond network. We derive a strong dominance of nonsymmetric molecules in liquid water in contrast to the gas phase on the sub-femtosecond timescale of RIXS and determine the fraction of highly asymmetrically distorted... (More)
Liquid water molecules interact strongly with each other, forming a fluctuating hydrogen bond network and thereby giving rise to the anomalous phase diagram of liquid water. Consequently, symmetric and asymmetric water molecules have been found in the picosecond time average with IR and optical Raman spectroscopy. With subnatural linewidth resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at vibrational resolution, we take sub-femtosecond snapshots of the electronic and structural properties of water molecules in the hydrogen bond network. We derive a strong dominance of nonsymmetric molecules in liquid water in contrast to the gas phase on the sub-femtosecond timescale of RIXS and determine the fraction of highly asymmetrically distorted molecules. (Less)
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8
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1079-7114
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.088302
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English
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  author       = {{Pietzsch, A and Hennies, Franz and Miedema, P S and Kennedy, B and Schlappa, J and Schmitt, T and Strocov, V N and Föhlisch, A}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{8}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Snapshots of the Fluctuating Hydrogen Bond Network in Liquid Water on the Sub-Femtosecond Timescale with Vibrational Resonant Inelastic x-ray Scattering.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.088302}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.088302}},
  volume       = {{114}},
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