1Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China 2School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Dynamic nature of hydrogen bond (H-bond) is central in molecular science of substance transportation, energy transfer, and phase transition in H-bonding networks diversely expressed as solution, crystal, and interfacial systems, thus attracting the state-of-the-art revealing of its phenomenological edges and sophisticated causes. However, the current understanding of the ground-state fluctuation from zero-point vibration (ZPV) lacks a firm quasi-classical base, concerning three basic dimensions as geometry, electronic structure, and interaction energy. Here, based on the ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of a ground-state water dimer, temporally separated fluctuation features in the elementary H-bond as the long-time weakening and the minor short-time strengthening are respectively assigned to two low-frequency intermolecular ZPV modes and two O–H stretching ones. Geometrically, the former modes instantaneously lengthen H-bond up to 0.2 Å whose time-averaged effect coverages to about 0.03 Å over 1-picosecond. Electronic-structure fluctuation crosses criteria’ borders, dividing into partially covalent and noncovalent H-bonding established for equilibrium models, with a 370% amplitude and the district trend in interaction energy fluctuation compared with conventional dragging models using frozen monomers. Extended physical picture within the normal-mode disclosure further approaches to the dynamic nature of H-bond and better supports the upper-building explorations towards ultrafast and mode-specific manipulation.
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* Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11974136 and 11674123).
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Wan-Run Jiang(姜万润)†, Rui Wang(王瑞)†, Xue-Guang Ren(任雪光), Zhi-Yuan Zhang(张志远), Dan-Hui Li(李丹慧), and Zhi-Gang Wang(王志刚)‡ Zero-point fluctuation of hydrogen bond in water dimer from ab initio molecular dynamics 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 103101
Fig. 1.
Mode-specific dynamic contribution of zero-point vibration to intermolecular H-bond length. Left panel shows vibration schemes of twelve modes together with their approximate vibration periods reproduced from dynamic simulations (left corners, unit is fs) and calculated fundamental frequencies (italic figures at lower right corners, in unit cm−1). Right panel indicates variance of RO…H when all modes are vibrating with ZPVE and when only one of twelve modes is vibrating with its ZVPE. Curves for single modes are plotted within one corresponding vibration period, and different colour curves correspond to different colours in left figure (top right corner of each mode). The black curve for all modes is plotted within the greatest vibration mode period. Contributions from individual modes are preliminarily classed into three groups, given they might respectively dominate three geometric determinants for RO…H as indicated by the water-dimer model in the right panel. Colour codes as red, green and blue are correspondingly assigned, and coloured horizontal and vertical bars in the right panel indicate approximate temporal range and spatial effects on RO…H of modes in each group. Dash line crossing the vertical bars indicates equilibrium H-bond length.
Fig. 2.Blending effect of modes in each group on H-bond geometrical determinants and <i>R</i><sub>O…H</sub> variance as well as corresponding cumulative time-averaging effects.
(a) Comparison of RO…O fluctuation induced by modes 2 and 4 with that by all ZPVs, and their geometric projections on RO…H with other two determinants keeping in equilibrium constants. (b) Comparison of ∠O⋯O–H fluctuation induced by modes 5, 6, 7, and 8 with that by all ZPVs, and their geometric projection on RO…H after subtracting the RO…O dynamic influence and keeping RO–H in equilibrium constant. (c) Comparison of RO–H fluctuation induced by modes 9 and 11 with that by all ZPVs, and their geometric projection on RO…H after subtracting both RO…O and ∠O⋯O–H dynamic influences. Sum curve sums up data in sole mode case while collective curve takes data from another coupled simulation where all highlighted modes are simultaneously excited. Grey background curves in panels (a), (b), and (c) are for all-ZPV ΔRO…H respectively induced by variances of all determinants, without only RO…O variances and without RO…O or ∠O⋯O–H variance. (d) Curves coloured in red gradation are extrapolated estimations of the cumulative time-averaged RO…O from modes 2 and 4, when initial vibration phase of two modes is set to be 0, π/2, π, and 3π/2, separately, to form 16 phase combinations. The dotted line and value in brown are for referencing of the experimental results. The grey line and the value in parentheses are from a faster all-ZPV simulation adopting smaller triple-ζ basis sets (TZ) for estimating the convergence behaviour. Curves coloured in blue gradation is for RO–H from modes 9 and 11. Black curves and approximately converged values are for all-ZPV case and RO…H temporal domains sensitive to RO…O and RO–H variances are shaded by corresponding colours.
Fig. 3.
All-ZPV real-space distributions of LCPs between water molecules and fluctuations of electron density at LCPs (ρC) as well as total energy density at LCPs (HC) with respect to RO…H. For all snapshots, ∇2ρC > 0 is preserved. Crossing of dashed lines denote the equilibrium ρC and HC. Correspondingly divided regions shaded in yellow are for possibly strengthened H-bonds with both shorter RO…H and larger or both shorter RO…H and more negative HC. Grey shaded regions are for possibly weekend ones in the opposite conditions. Inset shows real-space distribution of H-bond LCPs during vibration and qualitatively describes its time evolution. Model of equilibrium water dimer is drawn and the equilibrium bond path connecting H-bonding oxygen and hydrogen atomsis denoted by grey dotted line. The black dot denoting BCPEq is the H-bond BCP in equilibrium conformation. During plotting LCPs, oxygen atom in proton–donor molecule is fixed, while the line connecting the two oxygen atoms and the plane determined with the extra upright hydrogen atom in the proton–donor molecule coincide for all snapshot views. As shown by the colour triangle, all data points are coloured according to contributions to ΔRO…H from dynamic variances of three geometric determinants. There are 315 data points for each distribution pattern.
Fig. 4.
All-ZPV fluctuations of interaction energy and decomposed components in water dimer with respect to simulation time and RO…H. Left panel shows values of each term and percentages of Ester, Eind, and Edisp in Eint, with respect to simulation time. The horizontal black dashed line in upper part denotes the equilibrium Eint. Term percentages at equilibrium structure (0 fs) and two other exemplified moments with Eint equal to equilibrium value aremarked and their positions are highlighted by vertical dotted lines. Region with slant lines in the left panel is for repulsive effect, and is respectively indicated by positive energy values and negative percentages. Right panel shows term distribution with respect to RO…H. Dashed lines within are for artificial manipulation to change RO…H under frozen monomeric geometries and H-bond angle.
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