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Machine learned chemical potentials have shown great promise as alternatives to conventional computational chemistry methods to represent the potential energy of a given atomic or molecular system as a function of its geometry. However,…

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We develop a neuroevolution-potential (NEP) framework for generating neural network based machine-learning potentials. They are trained using an evolutionary strategy for performing large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A…

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We propose a machine-learning approach based on Bayesian optimization to build global potential energy surfaces (PES) for reactive molecular systems using feedback from quantum scattering calculations. The method is designed to correct for…

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Machine-learning-based interatomic potential energy surface (PES) models are revolutionizing the field of molecular modeling. However, although much faster than electronic structure schemes, these models suffer from costly computations via…

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As molecular scientists have made progress in their ability to engineer nano-scale molecular structure, we are facing new challenges in our ability to engineer molecular dynamics (MD) and flexibility. Dynamics at the molecular scale differs…

Oxide-water interfaces govern a wide range of physical and chemical processes fundamental to many fields like catalysis, geochemistry, corrosion, electrochemistry, and sensor technology. Near solid oxide surfaces, water behaves differently…

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The atomic-scale response of inhomogeneous fluids at interfaces and surrounding solute particles plays a critical role in governing chemical, electrochemical and biological processes at such interfaces. Classical molecular dynamics…

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We describe and implement iMapD, a computer-assisted approach for accelerating the exploration of uncharted effective Free Energy Surfaces (FES), and more generally for the extraction of coarse-grained, macroscopic information from…

Neural network potentials (NNPs) enable large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of systems containing >10,000 atoms with the accuracy comparable to ab initio methods and play a crucial role in material studies. Although NNPs are…

Understanding and prediction of the chemical reactions are fundamental demanding in the study of many complex chemical systems. Reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has been widely used for this purpose as it can offer atomic details…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Jinzhe Zeng , Liqun Cao , Mingyuan Xu , Tong Zhu , John ZH Zhang

Interatomic potentials are essential for driving molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, directly impacting the reliability of predictions regarding the physical and chemical properties of materials. In recent years, machine-learned potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Penghua Ying , Cheng Qian , Rui Zhao , Yanzhou Wang , Feng Ding , Shunda Chen , Zheyong Fan

The rise of machine learning has greatly influenced the field of computational chemistry, and that of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations in particular. One of its most exciting prospects is the development of accurate,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Silvan Käser , Markus Meuwly

We present a first principles-quality potential energy surface (PES) describing the inter-atomic forces for hydrogen atoms interacting with free-standing graphene. The PES is a high-dimensional neural network potential that has been…

Permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP) regression has been used to obtain machine-learned (ML) potential energy surfaces, including analytical gradients, for many molecules and chemical reactions. Recently, the approach has been…

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An active learning procedure called Deep Potential Generator (DP-GEN) is proposed for the construction of accurate and transferable machine learning-based models of the potential energy surface (PES) for the molecular modeling of materials.…

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Machine Learning (ML) approximations to Density Functional Theory (DFT) potential energy surfaces (PESs) are showing great promise for reducing the computational cost of accurate molecular simulations, but at present they are not applicable…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a crucial computational tool for researchers to understand and engineer molecular structure and function in areas such as drug discovery, protein engineering, and material design. Despite their…

Dynamics of flexible molecules are often determined by an interplay between local chemical bond fluctuations and conformational changes driven by long-range electrostatics and van der Waals interactions. This interplay between interactions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Valentin Vassilev-Galindo , Gregory Fonseca , Igor Poltavsky , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Kernel models of potential energy surfaces (PES) for polyatomic molecules are often restricted by a specific choice of the kernel function. This can be avoided by optimizing the complexity of the kernel function. For regression problems…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Jun Dai , Roman V. Krems

Neural network potentials (NNPs) offer a powerful alternative to traditional force fields for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Accurate and stable MD simulations, crucial for evaluating material properties, require training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Naoki Matsumura , Yuta Yoshimoto , Yuto Iwasaki , Meguru Yamazaki , Yasufumi Sakai