title: The OH stretch vibration of liquid water reveals hydrogen-bond clusters.
abstract: Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the fluctuations of the hydrogen-bond network in liquid water and its relation to vibrational spectroscopy. We show that the high-frequency shoulder, which is most evidently found in Raman spectra of the OH stretch vibration of isotope diluted water, is (at least to a certain extent) related to a three-fold hydrogen-bonded ring. This suggests that it is not always sufficient to classify individual water molecules when studying some aspects of hydrogen-bond dynamics, rather, one should consider the topology of the local structure around a given water molecule.
authors.affiliation: Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Garrett-Roe
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hamm
mesh_terms: D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014867:Water