title: Reorientation of water inside carbon nanorings by large angular jumps.
abstract: Molecular dynamics simulations of the orientational dynamics of water molecules confined inside narrow carbon nanorings reveal that reorientational relaxation is mediated by large amplitude angular jumps. The distribution of waiting time between jumps peaks at about 60 fs, and has a slowly decaying exponential tail with a timescale of about 440 fs. These time scales are much faster than the mean waiting time between jumps of the water molecules in bulk.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
authors.forename: Biswaroop
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Prabal K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Maiti
authors.forename: Chandan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dasgupta
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sood