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Modeling nuclear quantum effects is required for accurate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of molecules. The community has paid special attention to water and other biomolecules that show hydrogen bonding. Standard methods of modeling…

Density Functional Theory (DFT) accurately predicts the quantum chemical properties of molecules, but scales as $O(N_{\text{electrons}}^3)$. Sch\"utt et al. (2019) successfully approximate DFT 1000x faster with Neural Networks (NN).…

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Simulating the dynamics of ions near polarizable nanoparticles (NPs) using coarse-grained models is extremely challenging due to the need to solve the Poisson equation at every simulation timestep. Recently, a molecular dynamics (MD) method…

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