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Interatomic potentials approximate the potential energy of atoms as a function of their coordinates. Their main application is the effective simulation of many-atom systems. Here, we review empirical interatomic potentials designed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-11 Martin H. Muser , Sergey V. Sukhomlinov , Lars Pastewka

Accurate interatomic potentials are in high demand for large-scale atomistic simulations of materials that are prohibitively expensive by density functional theory (DFT) calculation. In this study, we apply machine learning potentials in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Takayuki Nishiyama , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

High-Temperature Superconductors (HTS) such as YBa2Cu3O7-delta (YBCO) are essential for next-generation Tokamak fusion reactors, where Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxides (REBCO) form the functional layers in HTS magnets. Because YBCO's…

Accurate simulations of molecules require high-level electronic-structure theory in combination with rigorous methods for approximating the quantum dynamics. Machine-learning approaches can significantly reduce the computational expense of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Valerii Andreichev , Jindra Dušek , Markus Meuwly , Jeremy O. Richardson

We demonstrate that the melting points and other thermodynamic quantities of the alkali metals can be calculated based on static crystalline properties. To do this we derive analytic interatomic potentials for the alkali metals fitted…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-02 Alan Nichol , Graeme J. Ackland

Large-scale atomistic simulations rely on interatomic potentials providing an efficient representation of atomic energies and forces. Modern machine-learning (ML) potentials provide the most precise representation compared to electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 David Immel , Ralf Drautz , Godehard Sutmann

We introduce interatomic potentials for tungsten in the bcc crystal phase and its defects within the Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP) framework, fitted to a database of first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-29 Wojciech J. Szlachta , Albert P. Bartók , Gábor Csányi

Materials composed of elements from the third and fifth columns of the periodic table display a very rich behavior, with the phase diagram usually containing a metallic liquid phase and a polar semiconducting solid. As a consequence, it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-13 Giulio imbalzano , Michele Ceriotti

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used to model diverse atomistic phenomena, yet parameterizing them to accurately capture solid-state phase transformations remains difficult. We present error metrics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Lorenzo Piersante , Anirudh Raju Natarajan

We assess the accuracy of six universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for predicting the temperature and pressure response of materials by molecular dynamics simulations. Accuracy is evaluated across 13 diverse materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Konstantin Stracke , Connor W. Edwards , Jack D. Evans

Machine-learning potentials for materials, namely the moment tensor potentials (MTPs), were validated using experimental EXAFS spectra for the first time. The MTPs for four metals (bcc W and Mo, fcc Cu and Ni) were obtained by the active…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Alexander V. Shapeev , Dmitry Bocharov , Alexei Kuzmin

Machine learning of atomic-scale properties is revolutionizing molecular modelling, making it possible to evaluate inter-atomic potentials with first-principles accuracy, at a fraction of the costs. The accuracy, speed and reliability of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Giulio Imbalzano , Andrea Anelli , Daniele Giofr é , Sinja Klees , J örg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

Machine-learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized materials modeling at the atomic scale. Thanks to these, it is now indeed possible to perform simulations of \abinitio quality over very large time and length scales. More…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Haochen Yu , Matteo Giantomassi , Giuliana Materzanini , Junjie Wang , Gian-Marco Rignanese

Niobium (Nb) and its alloys are extensively used in various technological applications owing to their favorable mechanical, thermal and irradiation properties. Accurately modeling Nb under irradiation is essential for predicting…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-06 Utkarsh Bhardwaj , Vinayak Mishra , Suman Mondal , Manoj Warrier

Key to being able to accurately model the properties of realistic materials is being able to predict their properties in the thermodynamic limit. Nevertheless, because most many-body electronic structure methods scale as a high-order…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Edgar Josué Landinez Borda , Kenneth O. Berard , Annette Lopez , Brenda Rubenstein

A novel phenomenological framework for an efficient estimation of the thermo-electric properties at room temperature and elevated temperatures of body-centered cubic (BCC) transition metal concentrated alloys is proposed in this work. The…

New refractory alloys are being continuously designed and characterised for applications requiring good high-temperature mechanical properties and stability. Computational design from atomistic simulations is limited by interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-05 Jesper Byggmästar , Tiago Lopes , Zheyong Fan , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We introduce a novel class of localized atomic environment representations, based upon the Coulomb matrix. By combining these functions with the Gaussian approximation potential approach, we present LC-GAP, a new system for generating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-07 James Barker , Johannes Bulin , Jan Hamaekers , Sonja Mathias

The central approximation made in classical molecular dynamics simulation of materials is the interatomic potential used to calculate the forces on the atoms. Great effort and ingenuity is required to construct viable functional forms and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mitchell A. Wood , Mary Alice Cusentino , Brian D. Wirth , Aidan P. Thompson

For machine learning of interatomic potentials a scalable sparse Gaussian process regression formalism is introduced with a data-efficient on-the-fly adaptive sampling algorithm. With this approach, the computational cost is effectively…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Amir Hajibabaei , Chang Woo Myung , Kwang S. Kim