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| author | Zubeltzu, Jon Bresme, Fernando Dawber, Matthew Fernandez-Serra, Marivi Artacho, Emilio |
| author_facet | Zubeltzu, Jon Bresme, Fernando Dawber, Matthew Fernandez-Serra, Marivi Artacho, Emilio |
| contents | Recent experiments show that the relative dielectric constant $ε$ of water confined to a film of nanometric thickness reaches a strikingly low value of 2.1, barely above the bulk's 1.8 value for the purely electronic response. We argue that $ε$ is not a well-defined measure for dielectric properties at sub-nanometer scales due to the ambiguous definition of confinement width. Instead we propose the 2D polarizability $α_{\perp}$ as the appropriate, well-defined response function whose magnitude can be directly obtained from both measurements and computations. Once the appropriate description is used, understanding the interplay between electronic and ionic contributions becomes critical, contrary to what is widely assumed. This highlights the importance of electronic degrees of freedom in interpreting the dielectric response of polar fluids under nanoconfinement conditions, as revealed by molecular dynamics simulations. |
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| spellingShingle | Redefining the dielectric response of nanoconfined liquids: insights from water Zubeltzu, Jon Bresme, Fernando Dawber, Matthew Fernandez-Serra, Marivi Artacho, Emilio Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Recent experiments show that the relative dielectric constant $ε$ of water confined to a film of nanometric thickness reaches a strikingly low value of 2.1, barely above the bulk's 1.8 value for the purely electronic response. We argue that $ε$ is not a well-defined measure for dielectric properties at sub-nanometer scales due to the ambiguous definition of confinement width. Instead we propose the 2D polarizability $α_{\perp}$ as the appropriate, well-defined response function whose magnitude can be directly obtained from both measurements and computations. Once the appropriate description is used, understanding the interplay between electronic and ionic contributions becomes critical, contrary to what is widely assumed. This highlights the importance of electronic degrees of freedom in interpreting the dielectric response of polar fluids under nanoconfinement conditions, as revealed by molecular dynamics simulations. |
| title | Redefining the dielectric response of nanoconfined liquids: insights from water |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01347 |