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The development of interatomic potentials that can accurately capture a wide range of physical phenomena and diverse environments is of significant interest, but it presents a formidable challenge. This challenge arises from the numerous…

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The advent of machine learning in materials science opens the way for exciting and ambitious simulations of large systems and long time scales with the accuracy of ab-initio calculations. Recently, several pre-trained universal machine…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-28 Luis Casillas-Trujillo , Abhijith S. Parackal , Rickard Armiento , Björn Alling

Choice of appropriate force field is one of the main concerns of any atomistic simulation that needs to be seriously considered in order to yield reliable results. Since, investigations on mechanical behavior of materials at micro/nanoscale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Seyed Moein Rassoulinejad-Mousavi , Yijin Mao , Yuwen Zhang

Supported nanoparticle catalysts are widely used in the chemical industry. Computational modeling of supported nanoparticles based on density functional theory (DFT) often involves structural searches of stable local minimum energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Jiayan Xu , Abhirup Patra , Amar Deep Pathak , Sharan Shetty , Detlef Hohl , Roberto Car

We present a tight-binding potential for transition metals, carbon, and transition metal carbides, which has been optimized through a systematic fitting procedure. A minimal basis, including the s, p electrons of carbon and the d electrons…

Potentials that could accurately describe the irradiation damage processes are highly desired to figure out the atomic-level response of various newly-discovered materials under irradiation environments. In this work, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-20 Hao Wang , Xun Guo , Jianming Xue

Multiply charged actinide molecules provide a unique platform to study fundamental physics and the chemical bond under extreme conditions. Beyond the inherently large relativistic effects associated with a high proton number $Z$, an…

Universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (U-MLIPs) have demonstrated broad applicability across diverse atomistic systems but often require fine-tuning to achieve task-specific accuracy. While the number of available U-MLIPs and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Xiaoqing Liu , Kehan Zeng , Zedong Luo , Yangshuai Wang , Teng Zhao , Zhenli Xu

In recent years, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have attracted significant attention as a method that enables large-scale, long-time atomistic simulations while maintaining accuracy comparable to electronic structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-27 Yuta Yoshimoto , Naoki Matsumura , Yuto Iwasaki , Hiroshi Nakao , Yasufumi Sakai

Material characterization in nano-mechanical tests requires precise interatomic potentials for the computation of atomic energies and forces with near-quantum accuracy. For such purposes, we develop a robust neural-network interatomic…

We introduce a machine-learning interatomic potential for tungsten using the Gaussian Approximation Potential framework. We specifically focus on properties relevant for simulations of radiation-induced collision cascades and the damage…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Jesper Byggmästar , Ali Hamedani , Kai Nordlund , Flyura Djurabekova

We present a new scheme to extract numerically ``optimal'' interatomic potentials from large amounts of data produced by first-principles calculations. The method is based on fitting the potential to ab initio atomic forces of many atomic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Furio Ercolessi , James B. Adams

We investigate the plasma enhancement of nuclear reactions in the intermediate coupling regime using orbital free molecular dynamics (OFMD) simulations. Mixtures of H-Cu and H-Ag serve as prototypes of simultaneous weak and strong couplings…

Large-scale simulations of plastic deformation and phase transformations in alloys require reliable classical interatomic potentials. We construct an embedded-atom method potential for niobium as the first step in alloy potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-27 Michael R. Fellinger , Hyoungki Park , John W. Wilkins

Finding new materials with previously unknown atomic structure or materials with optimal set of properties for a specific application greatly benefits from computational modeling. Recently, such screening has been dramatically accelerated…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-11 Ethan Berger , Mohammad Bagheri , Hannu-Pekka Komsa

In the present work, we have incorporated the microscopic relativistic nuclear potential obtained from recently developed relativistic R3Y NN potential in the coupled channels code CCFULL to study the fusion dynamics. The R3Y NN-potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-06 N. Jain , M. Bhuyan , Raj Kumar

We assess the accuracy of six universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for predicting the temperature and pressure response of materials by molecular dynamics simulations. Accuracy is evaluated across 13 diverse materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Konstantin Stracke , Connor W. Edwards , Jack D. Evans

A new pairwise hybrid machine-learning/molecular mechanics (ML/MM) potential is introduced that is conceived for application to large, heterogeneous condensed-phase systems. The PhysNet ML method describes monomers and short-range dimer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Kham Lek Chaton , Eric D. Boittier , Mike Devereux , Markus Meuwly

The dynamical nucleus-nucleus potentials for some fusion reactions are investigated by using the improved quantum molecular dynamics (ImQMD) model with different sets of parameters in which the corresponding incompressibility coefficient of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-28 V. Zanganeh , N. Wang , O. N. Ghodsi

We have studied the dependence of metal oxide properties in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on the polarizability of oxygen ions. We present studies of both liquid and crystalline structures of silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO) and alumina…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-13 Philipp Beck , Peter Brommer , Johannes Roth , Hans-Rainer Trebin