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Many materials's properties and phase boundaries are generally not well known under extreme pressure and temperature conditions. This is a consequence of the scarcity of experimental information and the difficulty of extrapolating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Alfredo A. Correa , Sebastien Hamel

Efficient and accurate interatomic potential functions are critical to computational study of materials while searching for structures with desired properties. Traditionally, potential functions or energy landscapes are designed by experts…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Andrew Eldridge , Alejandro Rodriguez , Ming Hu , Jianjun Hu

First-principles based modeling on phonon dynamics and transport using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equation has proven powerful in predicting thermal conductivity of crystalline materials, but it remains unfeasible for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Xin Qian , Shenyou Peng , Xiaobo Li , Yujie Wei , Ronggui Yang

The highly anisotropic thermal conductivity in layered materials is crucial for a broad range of applications such as thermal management of electronic devices, thermal insulation, and thermoelectrics. Understanding of anisotropic thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Jialin Tang , Qi Wang , Jiongzhi Zheng , Lin Cheng , Ruiqiang Guo

Machine Learning (ML) potentials such as Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in mapping structure to properties across diverse systems. Here, we introduce a GAP model for low-dimensional Ni…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Suvo Banik , Partha Sarathi Dutta , Sukriti Manna , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have substantially advanced atomistic simulations in materials science and chemistry by balancing accuracy and computational efficiency. While leading MLIPs rely on representing atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 Mingjian Wen , Wei-Fan Huang , Jin Dai , Santosh Adhikari

One of the ultimate goals of computational modeling in condensed matter is to be able to accurately compute materials properties with minimal empirical information. First-principles approaches such as the density functional theory (DFT)…

In this work, we present a machine-learned interatomic potential for the ${\alpha}$-Fe-H system based on the tabulated Gaussian Approximation Potential (tabGAP) formalism. Trained on a Density Functional Theory (DFT) dataset of atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-27 Eetu Makkonen , Alvaro Lopez-Cazalilla , Flyura Djurabekova

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…

The central approximation made in classical molecular dynamics simulation of materials is the interatomic potential used to calculate the forces on the atoms. Great effort and ingenuity is required to construct viable functional forms and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mitchell A. Wood , Mary Alice Cusentino , Brian D. Wirth , Aidan P. Thompson

We develop a set of machine-learning interatomic potentials for elemental V, Nb, Mo, Ta, and W using the Gaussian approximation potential framework. The potentials show good accuracy and transferability for elastic, thermal, liquid, defect,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Jesper Byggmästar , Kai Nordlund , Flyura Djurabekova

Machine-learned potential-driven molecular dynamics (MLMD) simulations are of great value in guiding the design and optimization of memory devices. Amorphous indium-tin-oxide (ITO) is widely used as transparent conducting oxide for…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-05 Shuaiyang Guo , Yuan Wang , Wei Zhang

We show that a deep-learning neural network potential (DP) based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations can well describe Cu-Zr materials, an example of a binary alloy system that can coexist in several ordered intermetallics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 Christopher M. Andolina , Philip Williamson , Wissam A. Saidi

By using molecular dynamics simulation, formation mechanisms of amorphous carbon in particular sp${}^3$ rich structure was researched. The problem that reactive empirical bond order potential cannot represent amorphous carbon properly was…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Atsushi M. Ito , Arimichi Takayama , Seiki Saito , Hiroaki Nakamura

Accurate atomistic simulations of gas-surface scattering require potential energy surfaces that remain reliable over broad configurational and energetic ranges while retaining the efficiency needed for extensive trajectory sampling. Here,…

Interatomic potentials (IAPs), which describe the potential energy surface of atoms, are a fundamental input for atomistic simulations. However, existing IAPs are either fitted to narrow chemistries or too inaccurate for general…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Chi Chen , Shyue Ping Ong

Large-scale computer simulations of chemical atoms are used in a wide range of applications, including batteries, drugs, and more. However, there is a problem with efficiency as it takes a long time due to the large amount of calculation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-28 Hyun Gyu Park , Soohaeng Yoo Willow , D. ChangMo Yang , Chang Woo Myung

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) provide near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy at reduced computational cost, but their reliability depends on representative training data and often deteriorates in transition-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ashique Lal , Rik S. Breebaart , Peter G. Bolhuis , Evert Jan Meijer

The allotropes of boron continue to challenge structural elucidation and solid-state theory. Here we use machine learning combined with random structure searching (RSS) algorithms to systematically construct an interatomic potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-18 Volker L. Deringer , Chris J. Pickard , Gábor Csányi

The predictive simulation of molecular liquids requires models that are not only accurate, but computationally efficient enough to handle the large systems and long time scales required for reliable prediction of macroscopic properties. We…