Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Quantum-mechanical exploration of the phase diagram of water

  • Aleks Reinhardt,
  • Bingqing Cheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20821-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Complex interatomic interactions and diverse structures make computing the phase diagram of water very challenging. Here, a combination of machine learning and advanced free-energy methods at three levels of hybrid DFT enables the prediction of the phase diagram in close agreement with experiment.