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Machine learned interaction potentials (MLIPs) have become a critical component of large-scale, high-quality simulations for a range of chemical and biochemical systems. Yet, despite their in-distribution accuracy, molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Eric C. -Y. Yuan , Teresa Head-Gordon

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) provide an effective approach for accurately and efficiently modeling atomic interactions, expanding the capabilities of atomistic simulations to complex systems. However, a priori feature…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Tina Torabi , Matthias Militzer , Michael P. Friedlander , Christoph Ortner

An adaptive modeling method (AMM) that couples a deep neural network potential and a classical force field is introduced to address the accuracy-efficiency dilemma faced by the molecular simulation community. The AMM simulated system is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , Weinan E

In recent years, efficient inter-atomic potentials approaching the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been developed using rigorous atomic descriptors satisfying strict invariances, for example, to translation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-18 Xiang-Guo Li , Chongze Hu , Chi Chen , Zhi Deng , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong

While machine learning (ML) interatomic potentials (IPs) are able to achieve accuracies nearing the level of noise inherent in the first-principles data to which they are trained, it remains to be shown if their increased complexities are…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-05 Joshua A. Vita , Dallas R. Trinkle

Machine learning has emerged as an invaluable tool in many research areas. In the present work, we harness this power to predict highly accurate molecular infrared spectra with unprecedented computational efficiency. To account for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Michael Gastegger , Jörg Behler , Philipp Marquetand

The development of modern ab initio methods has rapidly increased our understanding of physics, chemistry and materials science. Unfortunately, intensive ab initio calculations are intractable for large and complex systems. On the other…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-08 Lin Hu , Rui Su , Bing Huang , Feng Liu

We developed and validated an accurate inter-atomic potential for molecular dynamics simulation in cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) using a deep learning framework combined with smooth Ziegler-Biersack-Littmark (ZBL) screened nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-01 Yong Liu , Hao Wang , Linxin Guo , Zhanfeng Yan , Jian Zheng , Wei Zhou , Jianming Xue

In computational materials science, a common means for predicting macroscopic (e.g., mechanical) properties of an alloy is to define a model using combinations of descriptors that depend on some material properties (elastic constants,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-17 Ivan Novikov , Olga Kovalyova , Alexander Shapeev , Max Hodapp

Machine-learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations are a promising alternative to conventional classical potentials. Current approaches rely on descriptors of the local atomic environment with dimensions that increase…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-05 Nongnuch Artrith , Alexander Urban , Gerbrand Ceder

Understanding the mechanisms of hydrogen embrittlement (HE) is essential for advancing next-generation high-strength steels, thereby motivating the development of highly accurate machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for the Fe-H…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Kazuma Ito

We present an investigation into data selection methods for the efficient sampling of configuration space as applied to the development of inter-atomic potentials for scale bridging in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. This investigation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Jan Finkbeiner , Samuel Tovey , Christian Holm

We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-22 Giulio Benedini , Antoine Loew , Matti Hellstrom , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marques

Supported nanoparticle catalysts are widely used in the chemical industry. Computational modeling of supported nanoparticles based on density functional theory (DFT) often involves structural searches of stable local minimum energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Jiayan Xu , Abhirup Patra , Amar Deep Pathak , Sharan Shetty , Detlef Hohl , Roberto Car

The need to use a short time step is a key limit on the speed of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Simulations governed by classical potentials are often accelerated by using a multiple-time-step (MTS) integrator that evaluates certain…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Xiang Fu , Albert Musaelian , Anders Johansson , Tommi Jaakkola , Boris Kozinsky

Amorphous and amorphous porous palladium are key materials for catalysis, hydrogen storage, and functional applications, but their complex structures present computational challenges. This study employs a deep neural network trained on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-11 Isaías Rodríguez

Choice of appropriate force field is one of the main concerns of any atomistic simulation that needs to be seriously considered in order to yield reliable results. Since, investigations on mechanical behavior of materials at micro/nanoscale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Seyed Moein Rassoulinejad-Mousavi , Yijin Mao , Yuwen Zhang

Understanding the mechanical properties of solid-state materials at the atomic scale is crucial for developing novel materials. For example, amorphous LiSi alloys are attractive anode materials for solid-state Li-ion batteries but face…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-15 Zixiong Wei , Nongnuch Artrith

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field, the most commonly employed architectures were based on short-ranged atomic energy contributions,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 William J. Baldwin , Ilyes Batatia , Martin Vondrák , Johannes T. Margraf , Gábor Csányi

A numerical model is built, simulating the principles of kinetic gas theory, to predict pressures of molecules in a spherical pressure vessel; the model tracks a single particle and multiplies the force on the spherical walls by a mole of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Matthew Marko