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Title: Communication: On the stability of ice 0, ice i, and Ih

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4900772· OSTI ID:1565332
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  1. Univ. of Warwick (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics and Centre for Scientific Computing
  2. Univ. College London (UCL) (United Kingdom). Dept. of Earth Sciences and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Univ. College London (UCL) (United Kingdom). Dept. of Chemistry

Using ab initio methods, we examine the stability of ice 0, a recently proposed tetragonal form of ice implicated in the homogeneous freezing of water [J. Russo, F. Romano, and H. Tanaka, Nat. Mater. 13, 670 (2014)]. Vibrational frequencies are computed across the complete Brillouin Zone using Density Functional Theory (DFT), to confirm mechanical stability and quantify the free energy of ice 0 relative to ice Ih. The robustness of this result is tested via dispersion corrected semi-local and hybrid DFT, and Quantum Monte-Carlo calculation of lattice energies. Results indicate that popular molecular models only slightly overestimate the stability of ice zero. In addition, we study all possible realisations of proton disorder within the ice zero unit cell, and identify the ground state as ferroelectric. Comparisons are made to other low density metastable forms of ice, suggesting that the ice i structure [C. J. Fennel and J. D. Gezelter, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 1, 662 (2005)] may be equally relevant to ice formation.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1565332
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1224268
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, Issue 16; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 24 works
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