Femtosecond Mid-IR Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Liquid Water: Evidence for a Two-Component Structure

Author:

Woutersen S.1,Emmerichs U.1,Bakker H. J.1

Affiliation:

1. FOM–Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Abstract

A femtosecond mid-infrared pump-probe study of the vibrational and orientational dynamics of the OH-stretching mode of HDO dissolved in D 2 O is presented. The orientational relaxation of the HDO molecules was observed to occur on either a very slow or a very fast time scale, with associated time constants of τ R = 13 picoseconds and τ R = 0.7 picosecond. It was observed that strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecules only relax through the slow orientational relaxation process, whereas the fast process dominates for weakly hydrogen-bonded molecules. This suggests that, with respect to orientional dynamics, two distinct molecular species exist in liquid water.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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