The water hexamer: cage, prism, or both. Full dimensional quantum simulations say both |
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Authors: | Wang Yimin Babin Volodymyr Bowman Joel M Paesani Francesco |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. |
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Abstract: | State-of-the-art quantum simulations on a full-dimensional ab initio potential energy surface are used to characterize the properties of the water hexamer. The relative populations of the different isomers are determined over a wide range of temperatures. While the prism isomer is identified as the global minimum-energy structure, the quantum simulations, which explicitly include zero-point energy and quantum thermal motion, predict that both the cage and prism isomers are present at low temperature down to almost 0 K. This is largely consistent with the available experimental data and, in particular, with very recent measurements of broadband rotational spectra of the water hexamer recorded in supersonic expansions. |
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