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Accurate simulations of molecules require high-level electronic-structure theory in combination with rigorous methods for approximating the quantum dynamics. Machine-learning approaches can significantly reduce the computational expense of…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation techniques are widely used for various natural science applications. Increasingly, machine learning (ML) force field (FF) models begin to replace ab-initio simulations by predicting forces directly from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Xiang Fu , Zhenghao Wu , Wujie Wang , Tian Xie , Sinan Keten , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli , Tommi Jaakkola

Machine learning force fields have emerged as promising tools for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, potentially offering quantum-mechanical accuracy with the efficiency of classical MD. Inspired by foundational large language models,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Denan Li , Jiyuan Yang , Xiangkai Chen , Lintao Yu , Shi Liu

The development of reliable and extensible molecular mechanics (MM) force fields -- fast, empirical models characterizing the potential energy surface of molecular systems -- is indispensable for biomolecular simulation and computer-aided…

Simulations of biological macromolecules play an important role in understanding the physical basis of a number of complex processes such as protein folding. Even with increasing computational power and evolution of specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Hyungro Lee , Heng Ma , Matteo Turilli , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan

Electronic structure methods offer in principle accurate predictions of molecular properties, however, their applicability is limited by computational costs. Empirical methods are cheaper, but come with inherent approximations and are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Moritz Thürlemann , Sereina Riniker

Molecular dynamics (MD) has become a powerful tool for studying biophysical systems, due to increasing computational power and availability of software. Although MD has made many contributions to better understanding these complex…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Yihang Wang , Joao Marcelo Lamim Ribeiro , Pratyush Tiwary

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a pervasive tool in science, engineering, and beyond. Its success has also led to several synergies with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which we use to identify and characterize the major…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-09 Christopher Kolloff , Simon Olsson

Accurate and efficient simulation of infrared (IR) and Raman spectra is essential for molecular identification and structural analysis. Traditional quantum chemistry methods based on the harmonic approximation neglect anharmonicity and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Shengjiao Ji , Yujin Zhang , Zihan Zou , Bin Jiang , Jun Jiang , Yi Luo , Wei Hu

For nearly the past 30 years, Centroid Molecular Dynamics (CMD) has proven to be a viable classical-like phase space formulation for the calculation of quantum dynamical properties. However, calculation of the centroid effective force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Timothy D. Loose , Patrick G. Sahrmann , Gregory A. Voth

Conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulation approaches, such as $\textit{ab initio}$ MD (AIMD) and empirical force field MD (EFFMD), face significant trade-offs between physical accuracy and computational efficiency. This work presents…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-12 Hongyu Yan , Yong Wei , Minghan Chen , Hanning Chen

Molecular dynamics simulations provide a mechanistic description of molecules by relying on empirical potentials. The quality and transferability of such potentials can be improved leveraging data-driven models derived with machine learning…

Biomolecular force fields have been traditionally derived based on a mixture of reference quantum chemistry data and experimental information obtained on small fragments. However, the possibility to run extensive molecular dynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thorben Fröhlking , Mattia Bernetti , Nicola Calonaci , Giovanni Bussi

Molecular dynamics (MD) provides insights into atomic-scale processes by integrating over time the equations that describe the motion of atoms under the action of interatomic forces. Machine learning models have substantially accelerated MD…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Filippo Bigi , Sanggyu Chong , Agustinus Kristiadi , Michele Ceriotti

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been developed to simulate molecular systems, where an explicit description of changes in the electronic structure is necessary. However, QM/MM MD…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Lennard Böselt , Moritz Thürlemann , Sereina Riniker

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is essential for various scientific domains but computationally expensive. Learning-based force fields have made significant progress in accelerating ab-initio MD simulation but are not fast enough for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xiang Fu , Tian Xie , Nathan J. Rebello , Bradley D. Olsen , Tommi Jaakkola

Classical empirical force fields have dominated biomolecular simulation for over 50 years. Although widely used in drug discovery, crystal structure prediction, and biomolecular dynamics, they generally lack the accuracy and transferability…

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful and popular tool for understanding the dynamical evolution of materials at the nano and mesoscopic scales. There are various flavors of MD ranging from the high fidelity albeit computationally expensive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Rohit Batra , Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Accurate prediction of energy and forces for 3D molecular systems is one of fundamental challenges at the core of AI for Science applications. Many powerful and data-efficient neural networks predict molecular energies and forces from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ali Mollahosseini , Mohammed Haroon Dupty , Wee Sun Lee

Gradient-domain machine learning (GDML) is an accurate and efficient approach to learn a molecular potential and associated force field based on the kernel ridge regression algorithm. Here, we demonstrate its application to learn an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jiang Wang , Stefan Chmiela , Klaus-Robert Müller , Frank Noè , Cecilia Clementi