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Marco Pretti |
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Politecnico di Torino |
Abstract
We propose and investigate a simple model of water, defined on a
tetrahedral Husimi lattice. The peculiar nature of the lattice is
meant to account for the formation of a random hydrogen bond
network with locally tetrahedral coordination. The model turns out
to be consistent with most anomalous properties observed in liquid
and supercooled-liquid water. Furthermore, at low temperature we
observe two glassy phases with different densities, which can
apparently coexist at a first-order transition. The complex
free-energy landscape characterizing such phases is pointed out by
the so-called cavity method, at the level of 1-step replica
symmetry breaking. We are led to identify these phases with the
low- and high-density amorphous ices observed experimentally.