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Viscosity in water from first-principles and deep-neural-network simulations

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NPJ COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-022-00830-7

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  1. EU through the MAX Centre of Excellence for supercomputing applications [824143]
  2. Italian MUR, through the PRIN grant FERMAT
  3. Computational Chemical Sciences Center Chemistry in Solution and at Interfaces - US Department of Energy [DE-SC0019394]

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In this study, the viscosity of liquid water at near-ambient conditions is investigated using equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics simulations based on density-functional theory. The simulations are enhanced with deep-neural-network potentials to achieve acceptable statistical accuracy. The results show good agreement with experiments when crucial aspects of statistical data analysis are carefully considered.
We report on an extensive study of the viscosity of liquid water at near-ambient conditions, performed within the Green-Kubo theory of linear response and equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), based on density-functional theory (DFT). In order to cope with the long simulation times necessary to achieve an acceptable statistical accuracy, our ab initio approach is enhanced with deep-neural-network potentials (NNP). This approach is first validated against AIMD results, obtained by using the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) exchange-correlation functional and paying careful attention to crucial, yet often overlooked, aspects of the statistical data analysis. Then, we train a second NNP to a dataset generated from the Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed (SCAN) functional. Once the error resulting from the imperfect prediction of the melting line is offset by referring the simulated temperature to the theoretical melting one, our SCAN predictions of the shear viscosity of water are in very good agreement with experiments.

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