{"record":{"author":{"account_ref":null,"orcid":null},"builds_on":[],"content_schema":"pubphys.content.revision/1","content_sha256":"6c8272a20ad7f5b8632782b757e6c1b3c425c24c540e29744de381f93f25100c","created":"2026-10-15T23:43:22Z","files":[],"origin":{"assisted_by":[],"kind":"seed"},"parents":["a1cb891d6d5f9723a2901a04f187ba4d539a0a66b5982d5154cf11e0dc2e6ac4","ce59fb6cd812fc05906d0c60a71c75ea22bc686bcf38e7c3ef7010834d98ee7b"],"salt":"51085d68b63c2b29c2aff2925a2903d2acb9e0ea022b1b5b780176711ee65805","schema":"pubphys.record/2","site":"pubphys.com","target":null,"type":"revision"},"content":{"answer_type":"yes-no","assisted_by":[],"external_id":"bio.supercooled-water.llcp-existence","kind":"well-posed","literature_status":"partially-resolved","n":"2","parents":[],"plain":"The proposal is that deeply cooled water can exist as two liquids of different density, separated by a phase transition that ends at a critical point. Computer models of water show this, and a 2026 experiment reported seeing it in real water, but an independent confirmation is still missing.","posed_since":"1992","precise":"Determine whether $\\mathrm{H_2O}$ (and $\\mathrm{D_2O}$) has a first-order transition between a high-density liquid (HDL) and a low-density liquid (LDL) ending at a liquid-liquid critical point (LLCP), versus the singularity-free scenario, a critical point at negative pressure, or the stability-limit conjecture. The LLCP is established in several classical and machine-learned first-principles water models, and ultrafast heating of amorphous ice with X-ray scattering has reported a discontinuous-to-continuous crossover with critical fluctuations. An answer is an independent confirmation, by a different technique or group, of critical scaling (diverging correlation length with 3D Ising exponents) in metastable bulk water with crystallization excluded.","problem_ref":"a1cb891d6d5f9723a2901a04f187ba4d539a0a66b5982d5154cf11e0dc2e6ac4","references":"","settled_by":"Independent measurement of critical scaling or of a density discontinuity in bulk metastable water inside the region where ice forms rapidly, with crystallization excluded, consistent with the 2026 report.","status_note":"A 2026 ultrafast X-ray experiment (You et al., Science 2026, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec0018) reported a discontinuous-to-continuous liquid-liquid transition with critical divergence near $210 \\pm 8\\,\\mathrm{K}$, following a 2020 report of the transition under pressure; independent confirmation and an equilibrium measurement in bulk water are still lacking.","title":"Does real water have a liquid-liquid critical point?","topic_ref":null},"attested":{"attestation":{"batch":null,"client_id":null,"id_token_sha256":null,"kind":"platform"},"record_hash":"c6e64c37f2080a4a639175f568acd3ec5b2d5a34de6987b4a13c4804329d978d","schema":"pubphys.attested/1"},"envelope":{"attested_hash":"57901e3ed80b57d3d9d7176c297b9db530bdfb541d42ecb48d837964a8be49f5","platform_signature":{"key_id":"c6afc19b31429869751f06879c75cd64ea92654423d15b44be775bf1310a60da","sig":"Hh0zLItROHd4-pdKljVG9zTB9XiJOD8oUbm3lKU931FXU2hrf0Djxm410HagtvKKZRfSSlIc1Dtx2aID1znVBw"},"schema":"pubphys.envelope/1"},"record_hash":"c6e64c37f2080a4a639175f568acd3ec5b2d5a34de6987b4a13c4804329d978d","leaf_index":2632}