Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 130, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3156856
Keywords
crystal structure; free energy; high-pressure effects; high-temperature effects; ice; martensitic transformations; molecular dynamics method; Monte Carlo methods; phase diagrams; plastic crystals; solid-state phase transformations; thermodynamics
Funding
- DGI (Spain) [FIS2007-66079-C02-01]
- CAM [S-0505/ESP/0299]
- UCM [910570]
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We report the appearance of two plastic crystal phases of water at high pressure and temperature using computer simulations. In one of them the oxygen atoms form a body centered cubic structure (bcc) and in the other they form a face centered cubic structure (fcc). In both cases the water molecules were able to rotate almost freely. We have found that the bcc plastic crystal transformed into a fcc plastic crystal via a Martensitic phase transition when heated at constant pressure. We have performed the characterization and localization in the phase diagram of these plastic crystal phases for the SPC/E, TIP4P, and TIP4P/2005 water potential models. For TIP4P/2005 model free energy calculations were carried out for the bcc plastic crystal and fcc plastic crystal using a new method (which is a slight variation of the Einstein crystal method) proposed for these types of solid. The initial coexistence points for the SPC/E and TIP4P models were obtained using Hamiltonian Gibbs-Duhem integration. For all of these models these two plastic crystal phases appear in the high pressure and temperature region of the phase diagram. It would be of interest to study if such plastic crystal phases do indeed exist for real water. This would shed some light on the question of whether these models can describe satisfactorily the high pressure part of the phase diagram of water, and if not, where and why they fail.
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