Universal features in lifetime distribution of clusters in hydrogen bonding liquids

Abstract

Hydrogen bonding liquids, typically water and alcohols, are known to form labile structures (network, chains, etc...), hence the lifetime of such structures is an important microscopic parameter, which can be calculated in computer simulations. Since these cluster entities are mostly statistical in nature, one would expect that, in the short time regime, their lifetime distribution would be a broad Gaussian-like function of time, with a sin-*