Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Probing hydrogen bond strength in liquid water by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

  • Vinícius Vaz da Cruz,
  • Faris Gel’mukhanov,
  • Sebastian Eckert,
  • Marcella Iannuzzi,
  • Emelie Ertan,
  • Annette Pietzsch,
  • Rafael C. Couto,
  • Johannes Niskanen,
  • Mattis Fondell,
  • Marcus Dantz,
  • Thorsten Schmitt,
  • Xingye Lu,
  • Daniel McNally,
  • Raphael M. Jay,
  • Victor Kimberg,
  • Alexander Föhlisch,
  • Michael Odelius

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08979-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Understanding how nuclear motions affect vibrational motions in molecular liquids remains challenging in modern condensed matter physics. Here the authors study the vibrational quantum effects in liquid water and show the sensitivity on the coherent evolution of OH bonds in core-excited states.