The zero-point energy of the unusual ice II phase

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Water displays a highly complex phase diagram that is key to a range of critical processes, from the evolution of icy moons to that of the Earth's hydrosphere and even of life itself. Using ISIS facilities, we have recently shown that the water phase diagram is hypersensitive to ammonium fluoride doping which leads to the complete disappearance of the hydrogen-ordered ice II from the phase diagram. This phenomenon can be explained on the basis of the topologically constraint nature of ice II and the incompatibility of ammonium and fluoride ions with the ordered local structure. Consistent with our findings, it has been shown computationally that ice II has an unusually low zero-point energy. This is what we would now like to test experimentally using DINS measurements on the VESUVIO instrument. These experiments will give new insights into the origins of the complexity of condensed H2O.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86777976
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86777976
Provenance
Creator Dr Alexander Rosu-Finsen; Dr Giovanni Romanelli; Professor Roberto Senesi; Ms Zainab Sharif; Professor Carla Andreani; Professor Christoph Salzmann
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-09-21T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-09-26T08:14:33Z