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A machine-learned spin-lattice interatomic potential (MSLP) for magnetic iron is developed and applied to mesoscopic scale defects. It is achieved by augmenting a spin-lattice Hamiltonian with a neural network term trained to descriptors…

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Based on an analysis of the short range chemical environment of each atom in a system, standard machine learning based approaches to the construction of interatomic potentials aim at determining directly the central quantity which is the…

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We propose a novel active learning scheme for automatically sampling a minimum number of uncorrelated configurations for fitting the Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP). Our active learning scheme consists of an unsupervised machine…

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous and versatile materials studied extensively for applications such as carbon capture and water harvesting. However, computing phonon-mediated properties in MOFs, like thermal expansion and…

We assess the accuracy of six universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for predicting the temperature and pressure response of materials by molecular dynamics simulations. Accuracy is evaluated across 13 diverse materials…

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Reactive chemistry of molecular hydrogen at surfaces, notably dissociative sticking and hydrogen evolution, plays a crucial role in energy storage and fuel cells. Theoretical studies can help to decipher underlying mechanisms and reaction…

Large-scale atomistic computer simulations of materials heavily rely on interatomic potentials predicting the potential energy and Newtonian forces on atoms. Traditional interatomic potentials are based on physical intuition but contain few…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 G. P. Purja Pun , R. Batra , R. Ramprasad , Y. Mishin

Interatomic potentials have been widely used in atomistic simulations such as molecular dynamics. Recently, frameworks to construct accurate interatomic potentials that combine a systematic set of density functional theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-09 Atsuto Seko , Akira Takahashi , Isao Tanaka

There has been a recent surge of interest in using machine learning to approximate density functional theory (DFT) in materials science. However, many of the most performant models are evaluated on large databases of computed properties of,…

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This work examines challenges associated with the accuracy of machine-learned force fields (MLFFs) for bulk solid and liquid phases of d-block elements. In exhaustive detail, we contrast the performance of force, energy, 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

Key to being able to accurately model the properties of realistic materials is being able to predict their properties in the thermodynamic limit. Nevertheless, because most many-body electronic structure methods scale as a high-order…

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Computational modeling of high entropy alloys (HEA) is challenging given the scalability issues of Density functional theory (DFT) and the non-availability of Interatomic potentials (IP) for molecular dynamics simulations (MD). This work…

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The sensitivity of computed DFT (Density Functional Theory) molecular properties (including energetics, geometries, vibrational frequencies, and infrared intensities) to the radial and angular numerical integration grid meshes, as well as…

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We introduce a local machine-learning method for predicting the electron densities of periodic systems. The framework is based on a numerical, atom-centred auxiliary basis, which enables an accurate expansion of the all-electron density in…

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Combining the excellent thermal and electrical properties of Cu with the high abrasion resistance and thermal stability of W, Cu-W nanoparticle-reinforced metal matrix composites and nano-multilayers (NMLs) are finding applications as…

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Accurate free-energy calculations are essential for predicting thermodynamic properties and phase stability, but existing methods are limited: phonon-based approaches neglect anharmonicity and liquids, while molecular dynamics (MD) is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-19 Ekaterina Spirande , Timofei Miryashkin , Andrei Kolmakov , Alexander Shapeev

Within first-principles density functional theory (DFT) frameworks, accurate but fast prediction of electronic structures of nanoparticles (NPs) remains challenging. Herein, we propose a machine-learning architecture to rapidly but…

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