Berger Arian, Ciardi Gustavo, Sidler David, Hamm Peter, Shalit Andrey
Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Feb 12;116(7):2458-2463. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1818182116. Epub 2019 Jan 28.
The 2D Raman-terahertz (THz) response of liquid water is studied in dependence of temperature and isotope substitution ([Formula: see text]O, [Formula: see text]O, and [Formula: see text]O). In either case, a very short-lived (i.e., between 75 and 95 fs) echo is observed that reports on the inhomogeneity of the low-frequency intermolecular modes and hence, on the heterogeneity of the hydrogen bond networks of water. The echo lifetime slows down by about 20% when cooling the liquid from room temperature to the freezing point. Furthermore, the echo lifetime of [Formula: see text]O is [Formula: see text] slower than that of [Formula: see text]O, and both can be mapped on each other by introducing an effective temperature shift of [Formula: see text] K. In contrast, the temperature-dependent echo lifetimes of [Formula: see text]O and [Formula: see text]O are the same within error. [Formula: see text]O and [Formula: see text]O have identical masses, yet [Formula: see text]O is much closer to [Formula: see text]O in terms of nuclear quantum effects. It is, therefore, concluded that the echo is a measure of the structural inhomogeneity of liquid water induced by nuclear quantum effects.
研究了液态水的二维拉曼-太赫兹(THz)响应与温度和同位素取代(H₂O、D₂O和HDO)的关系。在这两种情况下,均观察到一种寿命极短(即75至95飞秒之间)的回波,该回波反映了低频分子间模式的不均匀性,进而反映了水的氢键网络的不均匀性。当液体从室温冷却至冰点时,回波寿命减慢约20%。此外,HDO的回波寿命比H₂O慢1.5倍,并且通过引入30 K的有效温度偏移,两者可以相互映射。相比之下,H₂O和D₂O的温度依赖回波寿命在误差范围内相同。H₂O和HDO具有相同的质量,但就核量子效应而言,HDO更接近D₂O。因此,得出结论:回波是核量子效应引起的液态水结构不均匀性的一种度量。