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The atomic cluster expansion (ACE) has been highly successful for the parameterisation of symmetric (invariant or equivariant) properties of many-particle systems. Here, we generalize its derivation to anti-symmetric functions. We show how…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-24 Ralf Drautz , Christoph Ortner

We present a new interatomic potential for solids and liquids called Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential (SNAP). The SNAP potential has a very general form and uses machine-learning techniques to reproduce the energies, forces, and stress…

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Alexander Shapeev

Particle-based shape modeling (PSM) is a family of approaches that automatically quantifies shape variability across anatomical cohorts by positioning particles (pseudo landmarks) on shape surfaces in a consistent configuration. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Hong Xu , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Developing robust representations of chemical structures that enable models to learn topological inductive biases is challenging. In this manuscript, we present a representation of atomistic systems. We begin by proving that our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Rahul Khorana , Marcus Noack , Jin Qian

Reconstructing the physical complexity of many-body dynamical systems can be challenging. Starting from the trajectories of their constitutive units (raw data), typical approaches require selecting appropriate descriptors to convert them…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Simone Martino , Domiziano Doria , Chiara Lionello , Matteo Becchi , Giovanni M. Pavan

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool in atomistic simulations, enabling the identification of complex patterns in molecular systems limiting human intervention and bias. However, the practical implementation of these methods…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Giulia Sormani , Alex Rodriguez , Ali Hassanali

We present a permutation-invariant distance between atomic configurations, defined through a functional representation of atomic positions. This distance enables to directly compare different atomic environments with an arbitrary number of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-30 Gregoire Ferre , Jean-Bernard Maillet , Gabriel Stoltz

Identifying local structural motifs and packing patterns of molecular solids is a challenging task for both simulation and experiment. We demonstrate two novel approaches to characterize local environments in different polymorphs of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-02 Daisuke Kuroshima , Michael Kilgour , Mark E. Tuckerman , Jutta Rogal

The Atomic Cluster Expansion provides local, complete basis functions that enable efficient parametrization of many-atom interactions. We extend the Atomic Cluster Expansion to incorporate graph basis functions. This naturally leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-23 Anton Bochkarev , Yury Lysogorskiy , Ralf Drautz

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-31 Ngoc Cuong Nguyen , Dionysios Sema

Extracting from trajectory data meaningful information to understand complex molecular systems might be non-trivial. High-dimensional analyses are typically assumed to be desirable, if not required, to prevent losing important information.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Chiara Lionello , Matteo Becchi , Simone Martino , Giovanni M. Pavan

The representation of the potential energy surfaces of atom molecule or molecular dimers interactions should account faithfully for the symmetry properties of the systems, preserving at the same time a compact analytical form. To this aim,…

We introduce the proper orthogonal descriptors for efficient and accurate interatomic potentials of multi-element chemical systems. The potential energy surface of a multi-element system is represented as a many-body expansion of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen

The increasingly common applications of machine-learning schemes to atomic-scale simulations have triggered efforts to better understand the mathematical properties of the mapping between the Cartesian coordinates of the atoms and the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Sergey N. Pozdnyakov , Liwei Zhang , Christoph Ortner , Gábor Csányi , Michele Ceriotti

With the aim to improve the performance of feature matching, we present an unsupervised approach to fuse various local descriptors in the space of homographies. Inspired by the observation that the homographies of correct feature…

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Domain adaptation and generative modelling have collectively mitigated the expensive nature of data collection and labelling by leveraging the rich abundance of accurate, labelled data in simulation environments. In this work, we study the…

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Surface plasmons on metals can concentrate light into sub-nanometric volumes and on these near atomic length scales the electronic response at the metal interface is smeared out over a Thomas-Fermi screening length. This nonlocality is a…

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In this work, we present a numerical implementation to compute the atom centered descriptors introduced by Bartok et al (Phys. Rev. B, 87, 184115, 2013) based on the harmonic analysis of the atomic neighbor density function. Specifically,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 David Zagaceta , Howard Yanxon , Qiang Zhu

While 2D occupancy maps commonly used in mobile robotics enable safe navigation in indoor environments, in order for robots to understand and interact with their environment and its inhabitants representing 3D geometry and semantic…

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