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Quantitatively accurate electronic structure calculations rely on the proper description of electron correlation. A judicious choice of the approximate quantum chemistry method depends upon the importance of dynamic and nondynamic…
Accurate structural analysis is essential to gain physical knowledge and understanding of atomic-scale processes in materials from atomistic simulations. However, traditional analysis methods often reach their limits when applied to…
Local atomic environment descriptors (LAEDs) are used in the materials science and chemistry communities, for example, for the development of machine learning interatomic potentials. Despite the fact that LAEDs have been extensively studied…
Electronic density of states (DOS) plays a crucial role in determining and understanding materials properties. We investigate the machine learnability of additive atomic contributions to electronic DOS, focusing on atom-projected DOS rather…
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…
The representation of atomic configurations for machine learning models has led to the development of numerous descriptors, often to describe the local environment of atoms. However, many of these representations are incomplete and/or…
Most of the current understanding of structure-property relations at the molecular and the supramolecular scales can be formulated in terms of the stability of and the interactions between a limited number of recurring structural motifs…
Descriptors are physically-inspired schemes for representing atomistic systems that play a central role in the construction of models of potential energy surfaces. Although physical intuition can be flexibly encoded into descriptor schemes,…
The development of interatomic potentials that can accurately capture a wide range of physical phenomena and diverse environments is of significant interest, but it presents a formidable challenge. This challenge arises from the numerous…
We address the problem of estimating the alignment pose between two models using structure-specific local descriptors. Our descriptors are generated using a combination of 2D image data and 3D contextual shape data, resulting in a set of…
The simulation of intrinsic contributions to molecular properties holds the potential to allow for chemistry to be directly inferred from changes to electronic structures at the atomic level. In the present study, we demonstrate how such…
The electronic density of states (DOS) quantifies the distribution of the energy levels that can be occupied by electrons in a quasiparticle picture, and is central to modern electronic structure theory. It also underpins the computation…
A central concern of molecular dynamics simulations are the potential energy surfaces that govern atomic interactions. These hypersurfaces define the potential energy of the system, and have generally been calculated using either predefined…
The applications of machine learning techniques to chemistry and materials science become more numerous by the day. The main challenge is to devise representations of atomic systems that are at the same time complete and concise, so as to…
Interpreting molecular dynamics simulations usually involves automated classification of local atomic environments to identify regions of interest. Existing approaches are generally limited to a small number of reference structures and only…
Modern laboratory techniques like ultrafast laser excitation and shock compression can bring matter into highly nonequilibrium states with complex structural transformation, metallization and dissociation dynamics. To understand and model…
In this work we apply methods for describing 3D images to the problem of encoding atomic environments in a way that is invariant to rotations, translations, and permutations of the atoms and, crucially, can be decoded back into the original…
We propose a method to probe the local density of states (LDOS) of atomic systems that provides both spatial and energy resolution. The method combines atomic and tunneling techniques to supply a simple, yet quantitative and operational,…
We analyze the electronic structure of atoms in the first, second and third periods using the electronic kinetic energy density and stress tensor density, which are local quantities motivated by quantum field theoretic consideration,…
We review some recently published methods to represent atomic neighbourhood environments, and analyse their relative merits in terms of their faithfulness and suitability for fitting potential energy surfaces. The crucial properties that…