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Water anomalies and isotropic potentials

, , , and . Abstract Book of the XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Genova, Italy, (9-13 July 2007)

Abstract

Water is ubiquitous in nature, however many of its characteristics are not well undestood. Molecular models have been proposed to represent the anomalies present in water. They have been successful in reproducing some of its anomalous behaviour but they have been unable to discribe the main physical machanism responsible for the anomalies. We propose a simple effective model that is able to capture the thermodynamic, dynamic, and structural anomalies present in water. From the analysis of this simple potential, we derive a prescription for potentials to exhibit thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies.

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