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The paper presents a model for liquid uranium dioxide, obtained by improving a simplified ionic model, previously adopted to describe the equation of state of this substance [1]. A "chemical picture" is used for liquid UO2 of stoichiometric…

We discuss the concept and design of effective atom-atom potentials that accurately describe any physical processes involving only states around the threshold. The existence of such potentials gives hope to a quantitative, and systematic,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bo Gao

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) provide a computationally efficient alternative to quantum mechanical simulations for predicting material properties. Message-passing graph neural networks, commonly used in these MLIPs, rely…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Moin Uddin Maruf , Sungmin Kim , Zeeshan Ahmad

We present a general method based on nonlinear response theory to obtain effective interactions between ions in an electron gas which can also be applied to other systems where an adiabatic separation of time-scales is possible. Nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-05 Simon Gravel , N. W. Ashcroft

We present a combined computational and experimental investigation of the thermal properties of uranium nitride (UN), focusing on the development of a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) using the moment tensor potential (MTP)…

Universal Machine Learning Interactomic Potentials (MLIPs) enable accelerated simulations for materials discovery. However, current research efforts fail to impactfully utilize MLIPs due to: 1. Overreliance on Density Functional Theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-07 Santiago Miret , Kin Long Kelvin Lee , Carmelo Gonzales , Sajid Mannan , N. M. Anoop Krishnan

Simulations of chemical reaction probabilities in gas surface dynamics require the calculation of ensemble averages over many tens of thousands of reaction events to predict dynamical observables that can be compared to experiments. At the…

Reactive chemistry of molecular hydrogen at surfaces, notably dissociative sticking and hydrogen evolution, plays a crucial role in energy storage and fuel cells. Theoretical studies can help to decipher underlying mechanisms and reaction…

An extension of the model described in a previous work of Maillet, Soulard and Stoltz based on a Dissipative Particule Dynamics is presented and applied to liquid nitromethane. Large scale non-equilibrium simulations of reacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-19 J. -B. Maillet , G. Vallverdu , N. Desbiens , G. Stoltz

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) evaluate potential energy surfaces orders of magnitude faster while maintaining accuracy comparable to first-principles calculations, and universal MLIPs that cover most of the periodic table…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Naoya Kuroda , Kenji Ishihara , Tomoya Shiota , Wataru Mizukami

In the last few years several ``universal'' interatomic potentials have appeared, using machine-learning approaches to predict energy and forces of atomic configurations with arbitrary composition and structure, with an accuracy often…

A brief review of recent microscopic calculations of nuclear pairing gap is given. A semi-microscopic model is suggested in which the ab-initio effective pairing interaction is supplemented with a small phenomenological addendum. It…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 E. E. Saperstein , M. Baldo , U. Lombardo , S. S. Pankratov , M. V. Zverev

We discuss various approaches to modeling the interatomic interactions for molecular dynamics with special focus on the geometrical structural properties. The type of interactions considered are so called reactive force fields, i.e.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-19 Ladislav Kocbach , Suhail Lubbad

For a set of realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials we evaluate microscopic parameters of binary collisions: a time duration of the scattering state, a mean distance and a rotation of nucleons during a collision. These parameters enter the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Klaus Morawetz , Pavel Lipavský , Václav Špička , Nai-Hang Kwong

We take the first step towards incorporating compound nuclear observables at astrophysically relevant energies into the experimental evidence used to constrain optical models, by propagating the uncertainty in two global optical potentials,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-27 Kyle A. Beyer , Amy E. Lovell , Cole D. Pruitt , Nathan P. Giha , Brian C. Kiedrowski

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) deliver near ab initio accuracy in energy and force calculations at low computational cost, making them invaluable for materials modeling. Although uMLIPs are pre-trained on vast ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Pjotrs Žguns , Inga Pudza , Alexei Kuzmin

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-02 Pascal Thibaudeau , Julian Gale

Zr oxides and oxynitrides are promising candidates to replace precious metal cathodes in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Oxygen reduction reaction activity in this class of materials has been correlated with the amount of oxygen vacancies,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-18 Akitaka Nakanishi , Shusuke Kasamatsu , Jun Haruyama , Osamu Sugino

The paper investigates the feasibility of achieving uniform high-power volume heating for a fusion reactor concept employing a mixed fuel composition involving $\text{pBDT}$. The realm of mixed fuel fusion concepts remains relatively…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Hartmut Ruhl , Georg Korn

The recently proposed effective potential theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235001 (2013)] allows evaluating transport in coupled plasmas with the well-developed formalisms for systems with binary collisions. To facilitate practical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Grigory Kagan , Scott D. Baalrud