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Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study computational self-assembly of one-component three-dimensional dodecagonal (12-fold) quasicrystals in systems with two-length-scale potentials. Existing criteria for three-dimensional…
Machine learning methods have nowadays become easy-to-use tools for constructing high-dimensional interatomic potentials with ab initio accuracy. Although machine learned interatomic potentials are generally orders of magnitude faster than…
The surprising recent discoveries of quasicrystals and their approximants in soft matter systems poses the intriguing possibility that these structures can be realized in a broad range of nano- and micro-scale assemblies. It has been…
The parameters of many-body potentials for Co, Nb and Zr metals, based on the embedded-atom method, have been systematically derived. The analytical potential scheme allows us to reproduce correctly the cohesive energies and structural…
Machine learning (ML) has become widely used in the development of interatomic potentials for molecular dynamics simulations. However, most ML potentials are still much slower than classical interatomic potentials and are usually trained…
A critical limitation to the wide-scale use of classical molecular dynamics for alloy design is the limited availability of suitable interatomic potentials. Here, we introduce the Rapid Alloy Method for Producing Accurate General Empirical…
New refractory alloys are being continuously designed and characterised for applications requiring good high-temperature mechanical properties and stability. Computational design from atomistic simulations is limited by interatomic…
Very recently, we introduced a set of correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) constructed within full many-body approaches. By employing significantly more accurate correlated approaches we were able to reach a new level…
We developed new modified embedded-atom method (MEAM) interatomic potentials for the Mg-Al alloy system using a first-principles method based on density functional theory (DFT). The materials parameters, such as the cohesive energy,…
Starting from the Zn17Sc3 cubic approximant, new quasicrystal alloys were searched by replacement of Zn with transition elements, T. In the cases of T=Mn, Fe, Co and Ni, new icosahedral quasicrystals are formed in as-cast alloys as major…
CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys exhibit exceptional mechanical properties arising from pronounced chemical complexity, including short-range order (SRO), and low stacking fault energy, posing challenges for large-scale atomistic simulations.…
We have studied the correlation potentials produced by various adiabatic connection models (ACM) for several atoms and molecules. The results have been compared to accurate reference potentials (coupled cluster and quantum Monte Carlo…
A new type of effective atomic pseudopotential for passivation of semiconductor surfaces is presented. It is shown that the spherical approximation used in the effective and empirical pseudopotential methods is not suitable for describing…
The effective potential formalism is applied to glass forming liquids, choosing a coupling potential such that the "order parameter", conjugated to the coupling strength, is the mean square displacement of the particles from their position…
When a colloid is mixed with a depletant such as a non-adsorbing polymer, one observes attractive effective interactions between the colloidal particles. If these particles are anisotropic, analysis of these effective interactions is…
In this paper I propose a new model for representing the formation energies of multicomponent crystalline alloys as a function of atom types. In the cases when displacements of atoms from their equilibrium positions are not large, the…
The quasi-nonlocal quasicontinuum method (QNL) is a consistent hybrid coupling method for atomistic and continuum models. Embedded atom models are empirical many-body potentials that are widely used for FCC metals such as copper and…
The success of first principles electronic structure calculation for predictive modeling in chemistry, solid state physics, and materials science is constrained by the limitations on simulated length and time scales due to computational…
A method is presented that allows to combine the effective potential between two nano crystals, the potential of mean force (PMF), as obtained from all-atomistic Molecular Dynamics simulations with perturbation theory. In this way, a…
The superposition of atomic potentials (SAP) approach has recently been shown to be a simple and efficient way to initialize electronic structure calculations [S. Lehtola, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 15, 1593 (2019)]. Here, we study the…