Isotope Effect on the Hydrogen Ordering from Ice V to Ice XIII via a Partially Ordered Intermediate
Keishiro Yamashita, Thomas Loerting · 2026
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Keishiro Yamashita and Thomas Loerting track how hydrogen atoms order inside ice V as it cools toward ice XIII in a 2026 study. Ice can sit between full order and full disorder, and that in-between state is hard to pin down. The team used heat measures at normal pressure plus slow warming runs with normal and heavy water ice.
Swapping in heavy water slowed the ordering process by a factor of 15 to 60 in their tests. Heat data and two-stage timing pointed to a middle state whose ordered patches keep flipping. The authors propose that this restless partial order may help explain frustrated materials beyond ice.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Keishiro Yamashita, Thomas Loerting |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31146 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |