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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 486: Phase Transition of Ice at High Pressures and Low Temperatures (Molecules)
 


The behavior of ice under extreme conditions undergoes the change of intermolecular binding patterns and leads to the structural phase transitions, which are needed for modeling the convection and internal structure of the giant planets and moons of the solar system as well as H2O-rich exoplanets. Such extreme conditions limit the structural explorations in laboratory but open a door for the theoretical study. The ice phases IX and XIII are located in the high pressure and low temperature region of the phase diagram. However, to the best of our knowledge, the phase transition boundary between these two phases is still not clear. In this work, based on the second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation (MP2) theory, we theoretically investigate the ice phases IX and XIII and predict their structures, vibrational spectra and Gibbs free energies at various extreme conditions, and for the first time confirm that the phase transition from ice IX to XIII can occur around 0.30 GPa and 154 K. The proposed work, taking into account the many-body electrostatic effect and the dispersion interactions from the first principles, opens up the possibility of completing the ice phase diagram and provides an efficient method to explore new phases of molecular crystals.


 
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