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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Shehtab Zaman , Christopher Owen , Kenneth Chiu , Michael Lawler

Material characterization in nano-mechanical tests requires precise interatomic potentials for the computation of atomic energies and forces with near-quantum accuracy. For such purposes, we develop a robust neural-network interatomic…

We report the development of a combined machine-learning and high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) framework to accelerate the search for new ferroelectric materials. The framework can predict potential ferroelectric compounds…

Interatomic potentials learned using machine learning methods have been successfully applied to atomistic simulations. However, accurate models require large training datasets, while generating reference calculations is computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 John Falk , Luigi Bonati , Pietro Novelli , Michele Parrinello , Massimiliano Pontil

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations have an enormous prospective impact on materials modeling, offering orders of magnitude speedup over density functional theory (DFT) calculations without appreciably sacrificing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-20 Dylan Bayerl , Christopher M. Andolina , Shyam Dwaraknath , Wissam A. Saidi

The structure and energy of grain boundaries (GBs) are essential for predicting the properties of polycrystalline materials. In this work, we use high-throughput density functional theory calculations workflow to construct the Grain…

We present an automated procedure for computing stacking fault energies in random alloys from large-scale simulations using moment tensor potentials (MTPs) with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT). To that end, we develop an…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 Max Hodapp , Alexander Shapeev

Simulating water from first principles remains a significant computational challenge due to the slow dynamics of the underlying system. Although machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) can accelerate these simulations, they often fail…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Tobias Hilpert , Georg Kresse

Total energies of crystal structures can be calculated to high precision using quantum-based density functional theory (DFT) methods, but the calculations can be time consuming and scale badly with system size. Cluster expansions of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-31 Qin Gao , Sanxi Yao , Jeff Schneider , Michael Widom

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)…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have revolutionized computational materials science by bridging the gap between quantum mechanical accuracy and classical simulation efficiency, enabling unprecedented exploration of materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-17 Ardavan Mehdizadeh , Peter Schindler

Machine-learning force fields have been increasingly employed in order to extend the possibility of current first-principles calculations. However, the transferability of the obtained potential can not always be guaranteed in situations…

Machine learning techniques allow a direct mapping of atomic positions and nuclear charges to the potential energy surface with almost ab-initio accuracy and the computational efficiency of empirical potentials. In this work we propose a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Viktor Zaverkin , Johannes Kästner

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are becoming a standard method for DFT-level accurate molecular dynamics simulation and large-scale studies of crystal energetics. Increasingly popular are universal pre-trained potentials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Abhijith S Parackal , Rickard Armiento , Florian Trybel

The systematic underestimation of band gaps is one of the most fundamental challenges in semilocal density functional theory (DFT). In addition to hindering the application of DFT to predicting electronic properties, the band gap problem is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Kyle Bystrom , Stefano Falletta , Boris Kozinsky

A method for performing variable-width (thawed) Gaussian wavepacket (GWP) variational dynamics on machine-learned potentials is presented. Instead of fitting the potential energy surface (PES), the anharmonic correction to the global…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Rami Gherib , Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Scott N. Genin

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

Uranium mononitride (UN) is a promising accident-tolerant fuel because of its high fissile density and high thermal conductivity. In this study, we developed the first machine learning interatomic potentials for reliable atomic-scale…

Phase change materials such as Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{5}$ (GST) are ideal candidates for next-generation, non-volatile, solid-state memory due to the ability to retain binary data in the amorphous and crystal phases, and rapidly transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-14 Owen R. Dunton , Tom Arbaugh , Francis W. Starr

Over the past decade inter-atomic potentials based on machine-learning (ML) techniques have become an indispensable tool in the atomic-scale modeling of materials. Trained on energies and forces obtained from electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-15 Michele Ceriotti