Investigating the Accuracy of Water Models through the Van Hove Correlation Function

Ray A. Matsumoto, Matthew W. Thompson, Van Quan Vuong, Weiwei Zhang, Yuya Shinohara, Adri C.T. Van Duin, Paul R.C. Kent, Stephan Irle, Takeshi Egami, Peter T. Cummings

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Abstract

We present molecular-simulation-based calculations of the Van Hove correlation function (VHF) of water using multiple modeling approaches: classical molecular dynamics with simple three-site nonpolarizable models, with a polarizable model, and with a reactive force field; density functional tight-binding molecular dynamics; and ab initio molecular dynamics. Due to the many orders of magnitude difference in the computational cost of these approaches, we investigate how small and short the simulations can be while still yielding sufficiently accurate and interpretable results for the VHF. We investigate the accuracy of the different models by comparing them to recently published inelastic X-ray scattering measurements of the VHF. We find that all of the models exhibit qualitative agreement with the experiments, and in some models and for some properties, the agreement is quantitative. This work lays the foundation for future simulation approaches to calculating the VHF for aqueous solutions in bulk and under nanoconfinement.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5992-6005
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Volume17
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 12 2021

Funding

This work was supported as part of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, operated under Contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract no. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for the U.S. Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). The IXS experiments at BL43LXU, SPring-8 were carried out under the approval of RIKEN (Proposal No. 20180069).

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