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Nanoscale Dynamics of Phase Flipping in Water near its Hypothesized Liquid-Liquid Critical Point
(2012)Scientific ReportsOne hypothesized explanation for water's anomalies imagines the existence of a liquid-liquid (LL) phase transition line separating two liquid phases and terminating at a LL critical point. We simulate the classic ST2 model of water for times up to 1000 ns and system size up to N = 729. We find that for state points near the LL transition line, the entire system flips rapidly between liquid states of high and low density. Our finite-size ...Journal Article