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The use of machine learning (ML) algorithms in molecular simulations has become commonplace in recent years. There now exists, for instance, a multitude of ML force field algorithms that have enabled simulations approaching ab initio level…

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We present a machine learning (ML) method for efficient computation of vibrational thermal expectation values of physical properties from first principles. Our approach is based on the non-perturbative frozen phonon formulation in which…

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Accurate simulations of atomistic systems from first principles are limited by computational cost. In high-throughput settings, machine learning can reduce these costs significantly by accurately interpolating between reference…

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The landscape of condensed matter physics is facing an unprecedented data surge driven by high-throughput ab initio workflows and rapidly expanding experimental datasets. Traditional first-principles methods such as Density Functional…

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The advancement of machine learning technologies has revolutionized the search and optimization of material properties. These algorithms often rely on theoretical calculations, such as density functional theory (DFT), for data inputs and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-06 Christopher Broyles , William Charles , Sheng Ran

A force field as accurate as quantum mechanics (QM) and as fast as molecular mechanics (MM), with which one can simulate a biomolecular system efficiently enough and meaningfully enough to get quantitative insights, is among the most ardent…

Density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals (DFT+$U$+$V$) provides a robust framework to accurately describe complex materials containing transition-metal or rare-earth elements. It does so by mitigating self-interaction…

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Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) is a powerful method to obtain key materials' properties, but the iterative solution of the KS equations is a numerically intensive task, which limits its application to complex systems. To…

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The molecular polarizability describes the tendency of a molecule to deform or polarize in response to an applied electric field. As such, this quantity governs key intra- and inter-molecular interactions such as induction and dispersion,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 David M. Wilkins , Andrea Grisafi , Yang Yang , Ka Un Lao , Robert A. DiStasio , Michele Ceriotti

A top-level designed forecasting system for predicting computational times of density-functional theory (DFT)/time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) calculations is presented. The computational time is assumed as the intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Shuo Ma , Yingjin Ma , Baohua Zhang , Yingqi Tian , Zhong Jin

The training of molecular models of quantum mechanical properties based on statistical machine learning requires large datasets which exemplify the map from chemical structure to molecular property. Intelligent a priori selection of…

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are gradually evolving towards enabling molecular dynamics simulations of molecules and materials with ab initio accuracy but at a small fraction of the computational cost. However, several challenges…

Electron density is a fundamental quantity, which can in principle determine all ground state electronic properties of a given system. Although machine learning (ML) models for electron density based on either an atom-centered basis or a…

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The development of machine-learning (ML) potentials offers significant accuracy improvements compared to molecular mechanics (MM) because of the inclusion of quantum-mechanical effects in molecular interactions. However, ML simulations are…

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Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 He Li , Zun Wang , Nianlong Zou , Meng Ye , Runzhang Xu , Xiaoxun Gong , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Machine learning thermodynamic perturbation theory (MLPT) is a promising approach to compute finite temperature properties when the goal is to compare several different levels of ab initio theory and/or to apply highly expensive…

In this article we present a machine learning model to obtain fast and accurate estimates of the molecular Hessian matrix. In this model, based on a random forest, the second derivatives of the energy with respect to redundant internal…

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