Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
We have carried out the path integral molecular dynamics simulations of high-densitycubic ice where each atomic nucleus is quantized. Thequantum effect of atoms on the static properties has been revealed in this ice at low temperatures and high densities. It has been found that the quantum nature of atoms plays an essentialrole to maintain the ice lattice structure while the cubic ice structure is collapsed under compressed conditions to become a high density amorphous statewhich the simulationstarting from the ice configuration eventually reaches. We have found that there is non-zero distribution probability at which hydrogen atoms are located at the midpoints between two neighboring oxygen atoms.
