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Published on: October 5, 2018
Correlated libration in liquid water
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4002, USA.
Abstract:
The libration spectrum of liquid H2O is resolved into an octupolar twisting libration band at 485 cm-1 and dipolar rocking-wagging libration bands at 707 and 743 cm-1 using polarization analysis of the hyper-Raman scattering (HRS) spectrum. Dipole interactions and orientation correlation over distances less than 2 nm account for the 36 cm-1 splitting of the longitudinal and transverse polarized bands of the dipolar rocking-wagging libration mode, while the intensity difference observed for the bands is the result of libration correlation over distances larger than 200 nm. The coupled rock and wag libration in water is similar to libration modes in ice. The libration relaxation time determined from the width of the spectrum is 36-54 fs. Polarization analysis of the HRS spectrum also shows long range correlation for molecular orientation and hindered translation, bending and stretching vibrations in water.
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