title: The mechanism of the dielectric relaxation in water.
abstract: Although relating to the same system, the interpretations of the water spectra from Raman and Dielectric spectroscopy present independent pictures of the nature of water. We show that in the overlap region of the two methods it is possible to combine these views into a coherent concept of what drives the dynamic features of water. In this work, we develop the idea that the dielectric relaxation in water is driven by the migration of defects through the H-bond network, leading to a Debye-like peak in the lower frequencies. The deviation from the Debye law in the higher sub-THz frequencies is traced to a global fluctuation of the same H-bond network, clearly evident in the Raman Spectra. By incorporating these two views, a mathematical formalism is presented that can aptly explicate the dielectric spectra of liquid water.
authors.affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Applied Physics, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. yurif@mail.huji.ac.il and Kazan Federal University, Institute of Physics, 420008, Kremlevskaya str.18, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Popov
authors.affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Applied Physics, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. yurif@mail.huji.ac.il.
authors.forename: Paul Ben
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Ishai
authors.affiliation: Kazan Federal University, Institute of Physics, 420008, Kremlevskaya str.18, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.
authors.forename: Airat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khamzin
authors.affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Applied Physics, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. yurif@mail.huji.ac.il.
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Feldman