Metallic Water

A snapshot from a first-principles simulation, showing the disordered structure of metallic water. Red spheres are hydrogen atoms while white spheres are oxygen atoms. The electron density from a partially occupied electron state, responsible for the conductivity, is shown as gold.

Reported by: Mattsson and Desjarlais in the 7 July 2006 issue of Physical Review Letters

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