Many-body effects in the X-ray absorption spectra of liquid water
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- Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful experimental technique to probe the local order in materials with core electron excitations. Experimental interpretation requires supporting theoretical calculations. For water, these calculations are very demanding and, to date, could only be done with major approximations that limited the accuracy of the calculated spectra. This prompted an intense debate on whether a substantial revision of the standard picture of tetrahedrally bonded water was necessary to improve the agreement of theory and experiment. Here, we report a first-principles calculation of the XAS of water that avoids the approximations of prior work, thanks to recent advances in electron excitation theory. The calculated XAS spectra, and their variation with changes of temperature and/or with isotope substitution, are in good quantitative agreement with experiments. The approach requires accurate quasiparticle wave functions beyond density functional theory approximations, accounts for the dynamics of quasiparticles, and includes dynamic screening as well as renormalization effects due to the continuum of valence-level excitations. The three features observed in the experimental spectra are unambiguously attributed to excitonic effects. The preedge feature is associated with a bound intramolecular exciton, the main-edge feature is associated with an exciton localized within the coordination shell of the excited molecule, and the postedge feature is delocalized over more distant neighbors, as expected for a resonant state. The three features probe the local order at short, intermediate, and longer range relative to the excited molecule. The calculated spectra are fully consistent with a standard tetrahedral picture of water.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Army Research Laboratory
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019394; AC02-05CH11231; DMR-2114081; DMR-2053195; AC05-00OR22725; 1625061; W911NF-16-2-0189
- OSTI ID:
- 1867717
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1897481; OSTI ID: 1994957
- Journal Information:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 119 Journal Issue: 20; ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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