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Thursday, January 5, 2017
Abstract-Hydrogen bond breaking dynamics in the water pentamer: Terahertz VRT spectroscopy of a 20 μm libration
William T. S. Cole, Raymond S. Fellersa), Mark R. Viantb), and Richard J. Saykally http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4973418 Hydrogen bonds in solid and liquid water are formed and broken via librational vibrations, hence characterizing the details of these motions is vital to understanding these important dynamics. Here we report the measurement and assignment of 875 transitions comprising 6 subbands originating from out-of-plane librational transitions of the water pentamer-d10 near 512 cm−1. The precisely measured (ca. 1 ppm) transitions reveal bifurcation splittings of ∼1884 MHz, a ∼4000× enhancement over ground state splittings and 100× greater than predicted by theory. The pentamer is thus the third water cluster to display greatly enhanced bifurcationtunneling upon single quantum excitation of librational vibrations. From the intensity pattern of the observed transitions, the mechanism of bifurcation is established by comparison with theoretical predictions.
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