Published December 4, 2018 | Version v1
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Ab initio thermodynamics of liquid and solid water: supplemental materials

  • 1. Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2. Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
  • 3. Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria

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Thermodynamic properties of liquid water as well as hexagonal (Ih) and cubic (Ic) ice are predicted based on density functional theory at the hybrid-functional level, rigorously taking into account quantum nuclear motion, anharmonic fluctuations and proton disorder. This is made possible by combining advanced free energy methods and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. The ab initio description leads to structural properties in excellent agreement with experiments, and reliable estimates of the melting points of light and heavy water. We observe that nuclear quantum effects contribute a crucial 0.2 meV/H2O to the stability of ice Ih, making it more stable than ice Ic. Our computational approach is general and transferable, providing a comprehensive framework for quantitative predictions of ab initio thermodynamic properties using machine learning potentials as an intermediate step. In this set of supplemental materials, we have included the neural network potential for bulk water, including its training set in two different formats. We have also included the input files for running free energy calculations.

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Preprint (Preprint where the data is discussed. The manuscript is also accepted in PNAS.)
B. Cheng, E. A. Engel, J. Behler, C. Dellago, and M. Ceriotti. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08630 (2018).