American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 4(79), 2009
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.040201
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We study the dynamic susceptibility chi_{T}(Q,t) of deeply supercooled water by means of quasielastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulations. Both techniques show an increase in the peak height of chi_{T}(Q,t) as the temperature is lowered toward the dynamic crossover temperature T_{L} . Below T_{L} , the peak height decreases steadily. We attribute this phenomenon to the change in slope of the Arrhenius plot of the translational relaxation time at T_{L} . In contrast, the peak height of the calculated four-point correlation function chi_{4}(Q,t) , directly related to the size of dynamic heterogeneity, increases toward and below T_{L} .