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A force field as accurate as quantum mechanics (QM) and as fast as molecular mechanics (MM), with which one can simulate a biomolecular system efficiently enough and meaningfully enough to get quantitative insights, is among the most ardent…

The ability to accurately model interatomic interactions in large-scale systems is fundamental to understanding a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena, from drug-protein binding to the behavior of next-generation materials. While…

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Large-scale density functional theory (DFT) calculations provide a powerful tool to investigate the atomic and electronic structure of materials with complex structures. This article reviews a large-scale DFT calculation method, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 Ayako Nakata , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki

Gaussian process (GP) emulator has been used as a surrogate model for predicting force field and molecular potential, to overcome the computational bottleneck of molecular dynamics simulation. Integrating both atomic force and energy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Hao Li , Musen Zhou , Jessalyn Sebastian , Jianzhong Wu , Mengyang Gu

Efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is vital for understanding atomic-scale processes in materials science and biophysics. Traditional density functional theory (DFT) methods are computationally expensive, which limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hung Le , Sherif Abbas , Minh Hoang Nguyen , Van Dai Do , Huu Hiep Nguyen , Dung Nguyen

Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the main methods in Quantum Chemistry that offers an attractive trade off between the cost and accuracy of quantum chemical computations. The electron density plays a key role in DFT. In this work,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Anton V. Sinitskiy , Vijay S. Pande

Neural network force field (NNFF) is a method for performing regression on atomic structure-force relationships, bypassing expensive quantum mechanics calculation which prevents the execution of long ab-initio quality molecular dynamics…

Recently, machine learning (ML) has been used to address the computational cost that has been limiting ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). Here, we present GNNFF, a graph neural network framework to directly predict atomic forces from…

Computational prediction of enzyme mechanism and protein function requires accurate physics-based models and suitable sampling. We discuss recent advances in large-scale quantum mechanical (QM) modeling of biochemical systems that have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 Vyshnavi Vennelakanti , Azadeh Nazemi , Rimsha Mehmood , Adam H. Steeves , Heather J. Kulik

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) is a quantum chemistry formulation that has a lower cost scaling than the prevailing Kohn-Sham DFT, which is increasingly desired for contemporary molecular research. However, its accuracy is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 He Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Jiacheng You , Chang Liu , Shuxin Zheng , Ziheng Lu , Tong Wang , Nanning Zheng , Bin Shao

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been a cornerstone in computational science, providing powerful insights into structure-property relationships for molecules and materials through first-principles quantum-mechanical (QM) calculations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yicheng Chen , Wenjie Yan , Zhanfeng Wang , Jianming Wu , Xin Xu

Atomistic modeling of thin-film processes provides an avenue not only for discovering key chemical mechanisms of the processes but also to extract quantitative metrics on the events and reactions taking place at the gas-surface interface.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 S. Kondati Natarajan , J. Schneider , N. Pandey , J. Wellendorff , S. Smidstrup

Accurate atomistic biomolecular simulations are vital for disease mechanism understanding, drug discovery, and biomaterial design, but existing simulation methods exhibit significant limitations. Classical force fields are efficient but…

We demonstrate an automatic method of force field development for molecular simulations. Parameter tuning is taken as an optimization problem in many dimensions. The parameters are automatically adapted to reproduce known experimental data…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roland Faller , Heiko Schmitz , Oliver Biermann , Florian Müller-Plathe

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing classical force fields constitute the cornerstone of contemporary atomistic modeling in chemistry, biology, and materials science. However, the predictive power of these simulations is only as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stefan Chmiela , Huziel E. Sauceda , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Deep learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and technology, especially image, text and speech recognition. In this paper, we demonstrate how a deep neural network (NN) trained on quantum mechanical (QM) DFT calculations can learn…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-10 Justin S. Smith , Olexandr Isayev , Adrian E. Roitberg

Deep generative modeling to stochastically design small molecules is an emerging technology for accelerating drug discovery and development. However, one major issue in molecular generative models is their lower frequency of drug-like…

Molecular simulations are essential tools in computational chemistry, enabling the prediction and understanding of molecular interactions and thermodynamic properties of biomolecules. However, traditional force fields face significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Junhan Chang , Duo Zhang , Yuqing Deng , Hongrui Lin , Zhirong Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Hang Zheng , Xinyan Wang

Reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is performed using a reactive force field (ReaxFF). To this end, we developed a new method to optimize the ReaxFF parameters based on a machine learning approach. This approach combines the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Hiroya Nakata , Shandan Bai

Density-functional theory (DFT) has revolutionized computer simulations in chemistry and material science. A faithful implementation of the theory requires self-consistent calculations. However, this effort involves repeatedly diagonalizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang