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Active learning (AL) plays a critical role in materials science, enabling applications such as the construction of machine-learning interatomic potentials for atomistic simulations and the operation of self-driving laboratories. Despite its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Akhil S. Nair , Lucas Foppa

While traditional trial-and-error methods for designing amorphous alloys are costly and inefficient, machine learning approaches based solely on composition lack critical atomic structural information. Machine learning interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-19 Xuhe Gong , Hengbo Zhao , Xiao Fu , Jingchen Lian , Qifan Yang , Ran Li , Ruijuan Xiao , Tao Zhang , Hong Li

Machine learning (ML) based interatomic potentials have transformed the field of atomistic materials modelling. However, ML potentials depend critically on the quality and quantity of quantum-mechanical reference data with which they are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 John L. A. Gardner , Kathryn T. Baker , Volker L. Deringer

The development of resilient and lightweight Aluminum alloys is central to advancing structural materials for energy-efficient engineering applications. To address this challenge, in this study, we explore the elastic properties of Al-Mg-Zr…

We develop and analyze a framework for consistent QM/MM (quantum/classic) hybrid models of crystalline defects, which admits general atomistic interactions including traditional off-the-shell interatomic potentials as well as state of art…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Huajie Chen , Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

We investigate the structural and dynamical properties of binary aluminum-titanium liquid metallic alloys, as a function of temperature and composition. We make use of MD-simulations, using a transferable machine-learning potential…

Machine learning (ML) enables the development of interatomic potentials that promise the accuracy of first principles methods while retaining the low cost and parallel efficiency of empirical potentials. While ML potentials traditionally…

One of the grand challenges in modern theoretical chemistry is designing and implementing approximations that expedite ab initio methods without loss of accuracy. Machine learning (ML), in particular neural networks, are emerging as a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Justin S. Smith , Olexandr Isayev , Adrian E. Roitberg

Single atomic sites often determine the functionality and performance of materials, such as catalysts, semi-conductors or enzymes. Computing and understanding the properties of such sites is therefore a crucial component of the rational…

Quantum mechanics based ab-initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulation schemes offer an accurate and direct means to monitor the time-evolution of materials. Nevertheless, the expensive and repetitive energy and force computations required in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-14 Venkatesh Botu , Rampi Ramprasad

Efficiently designing lightweight alloys with combined high corrosion resistance and mechanical properties remains an enduring topic in materials engineering. To this end, machine learning (ML) coupled ab-initio calculations is proposed…

Traditional atomistic machine learning (ML) models serve as surrogates for quantum mechanical (QM) properties, predicting quantities such as dipole moments and polarizabilities, directly from compositions and geometries of atomic…

First principles based exploration of chemical space deepens our understanding of chemistry, and might help with the design of new materials or experiments. Due to the computational cost of quantum chemistry methods and the immens number of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Bing Huang , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

A computationally efficient and accurate machine-learned (ML) interatomic potential is developed for Ti$_{n+1}$C$_n$ MXenes. With a diverse set of structures computed with density functional theory, the trained ML potential demonstrates…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-05 Jesper Byggmästar

The advent of neural-network-based deep learning techniques has led to the emergence of increasingly sophisticated numerical interatomic potentials, including graph neural networks and large language-motivated foundation models.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Susan R. Atlas

We present a study on the transport and materials properties of aluminum spanning from ambient to warm dense matter conditions using a machine-learned interatomic potential (ML-IAP). Prior research has utilized ML-IAPs to simulate phenomena…

Machine learning methods have nowadays become easy-to-use tools for constructing high-dimensional interatomic potentials with ab initio accuracy. Although machine learned interatomic potentials are generally orders of magnitude faster than…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Yaolong Zhang , Ce Hu , Bin Jiang

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used atomic simulations, but generating databases of atomic configurations used in fitting these models is a laborious process, requiring significant computational and human…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-26 Connor Allen , Albert P. Bartók

Machine Learning (ML) techniques are revolutionizing the way to perform efficient materials modeling. Nevertheless, not all the ML approaches allow for the understanding of microscopic mechanisms at play in different phenomena. To address…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-22 Udaykumar Gajera , Loriano Storchi , Danila Amoroso , Francesco Delodovici , Silvia Picozzi

Machine Learning (ML)-based force fields are attracting ever-increasing interest due to their capacity to span spatiotemporal scales of classical interatomic potentials at quantum-level accuracy. They can be trained based on high-fidelity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Sebastien Röcken , Julija Zavadlav