The intermolecular dynamics of liquid water

Abstract

We present the complete intermolecular dynamical spectrum of liquid water, by merging the data sets from femtosecond nonlinear-optical polarization spectroscopy with the depolarized, Bose–Einstein corrected Raman spectrum to cover the frequency range from 0–1200 cm−1. The impulse response function for liquid water at room temperature is calculated, including all of the intermolecular motions.