What is Hydrogen bond Auto-correlation function
In eqn 1 and 2 the correlation functions are written in the form $&lt;A B &gt;/&lt;A&gt;$ , the denominator  is the average of $A$ and the numerator the correlation function. This is the the integral product $U(t_d)=\int A(t) B(t-t_d)dt$ where $t_d$ is some time delay. When $A$ and $B$ are the same thing then this is the auto-correlation. It measure how similar the signal A is to B at different times. If $A$ and $B$ are random signals (such as white noise, or from a random number generator) then $U$ is 1 at zero time delay (both signals exactly superimposed) and zero at all other delays and this is because the correlation has no 'memory'; any point in a random signal is not related to any other. If $A$ and $B$ are constant then $U$ is one at all times, i.e perfect 'memory'. In your example the H bonds have a certain lifetime because are being broken due to molecular motion (as explained in the paragraph under eqns 1 &amp; 2) and so the correlation function decays away. A plot of the correlation gives the lifetime of the H bonds.