The Boson peak in confined water: An experimental investigation of the liquid-liquid phase transition hypothesis

Abstract

The Boson peak (BP) of deeply cooled confined water is studied by using inelastic neutron scattering (INS) in a large interval of the (P, T) phase plane. By taking into account the different behavior of such a collective vibrational mode in both strong and fragile glasses as well as in glass-forming materials, we were able to determine the Widom line that characterizes supercooled bulk water within the frame of the liquid-liquid phase transition (LLPT) hypothesis. The peak frequency and width of the BP correlated with the water polymorphism of the LLPT scenario, allowing us to distinguish the “low-density liquid” (LDL) and “high-density liquid” (HDL) phases in deeply cooled bulk water.Moreover, the BP properties afford a further confirmation of theWidom line temperature T_W as the (P, T) locus in which the local structure of water transforms from a predominately LDL form to a predominately HDL form.

Keywords

supercooled water / liquid-liquid phase transition (LLPT) / inelastic neutron scattering

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