Synchrotron far-infrared spectroscopy and linear response density-functional theory provide a new interpretation of the unique low-temperature isostructural transition in ice VIII. This study shows that it is a first-order thermodynamic transformation. Previously unexplained discrepancies have been resolved: the transformation between two forms of ice VIII arises from subtle phonon instabilities with an isostructural movement of molecules in the ice VIII structure.
Klug, D., Tse, J., Liu, Z., Gonze, X., & Hemley, R. (2004). Anomalous transformations in ice VIII. Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics, 70(14), 144113:1-144113:4. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.70.144113 (Original work published 2004)