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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and has been applied to various fields of physical science. However, the performance and transferability of MLIPs are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Taoyong Cui , Chenyu Tang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Lei Bai , Yuhan Dong , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLPs) are fast, data-driven surrogate models of atomistic systems' potential energy surfaces that can accelerate ab-initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations by several orders of magnitude. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-23 Thomas Bischoff , Bastian Jäckl , Matthias Rupp

Accurate yet transferable machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are essential for accelerating materials and chemical discovery. However, most universal MLIPs overfit to narrow datasets or computational protocols, limiting their…

Metadynamics, a member of the `flat histogram' class of advanced sampling algorithms, has been widely used in molecular simulations to drive the exploration of states separated by high free energy barriers and promote comprehensive sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Shanghui Huang , Michael J. Quevillon , Ernesto C. Cortés-Morales , Jonathan K. Whitmer

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) provide near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy at reduced computational cost, but their reliability depends on representative training data and often deteriorates in transition-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ashique Lal , Rik S. Breebaart , Peter G. Bolhuis , Evert Jan Meijer

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have emerged as powerful tools for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with their competitive accuracy and computational efficiency. However, MLIPs are often observed to exhibit un-physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-24 Qianyu Zheng , Victor Fung

Metadynamics (MTD) is a very powerful technique to sample high-dimensional free energy landscapes, and due to its self-guiding property, the method has been successful in studying complex reactions and conformational changes. MTD sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Shalini Awasthi , Venkat Kapil , Nisanth N. Nair

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MILPs) are rapidly gaining interest for molecular modeling, as they provide a balance between quantum-mechanical level descriptions of atomic interactions and reasonable computational efficiency.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Gustavo R. Pérez-Lemus , Yinan Xu , Yezhi Jin , Pablo F. Zubieta Rico , Juan J. de Pablo

The computational study of conformational transitions in RNA and proteins with atomistic molecular dynamics often requires suitable enhanced sampling techniques. We here introduce a novel method where concurrent metadynamics are integrated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alejandro Gil-Ley , Giovanni Bussi

The transport of excess protons and hydroxide ions in water underlies numerous important chemical and biological processes. Accurately simulating the associated transport mechanisms ideally requires utilizing ab initio molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Austin O. Atsango , Tobias Morawietz , Ondrej Marsalek , Thomas E. Markland

All-atom dynamics simulations are an indispensable quantitative tool in physics, chemistry, and materials science, but large systems and long simulation times remain challenging due to the trade-off between computational efficiency and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Stephen R. Xie , Matthias Rupp , Richard G. Hennig

Molecular dynamics (MD) enables the study of physical systems with excellent spatiotemporal resolution but suffers from severe time-scale limitations. To address this, enhanced sampling methods have been developed to improve exploration of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Shams Mehdi , Zachary Smith , Lukas Herron , Ziyue Zou , Pratyush Tiwary

A defining feature of sampling-based motion planning is the reliance on an implicit representation of the state space, which is enabled by a set of probing samples. Traditionally, these samples are drawn either probabilistically or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Brian Ichter , James Harrison , Marco Pavone

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) are becoming powerful tools for performing accurate atomistic simulations and crystal structure optimizations. An approach to developing MLPs employs a systematic set of polynomial invariants including…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Atsuto Seko

Sampling from discrete distributions with multiple modes and energy barriers is fundamental to machine learning and computational physics. Recent discrete neural samplers like MDNS suffer from mode collapse and fail to sample high-energy…

Molecular dynamics simulations have become essential in many areas of atomistic modelling from drug discovery to materials science. They provide critical atomic-level insights into key dynamical events experiments cannot easily capture.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Tiejun Wei , Balint Dudas , Edina Rosta

We present a method to sample reactive pathways via biased molecular dynamics simulations in trajectory space. We show that the use of enhanced sampling techniques enables unconstrained exploration of multiple reaction routes. Time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Davide Mandelli , Barak Hirshberg , Michele Parrinello

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have substantially advanced atomistic simulations in materials science and chemistry by balancing accuracy and computational efficiency. While leading MLIPs rely on representing atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 Mingjian Wen , Wei-Fan Huang , Jin Dai , Santosh Adhikari

Molecular dynamics simulations are widely used across chemistry, physics, and biology, providing quantitative insight into complex processes with atomic detail. However, their limited timescale of a few microseconds is a significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ofir Blumer , Barak Hirshberg

Sampling based methods are widely used for robotic motion planning. Traditionally, these samples are drawn from probabilistic ( or deterministic ) distributions to cover the state space uniformly. Despite being probabilistically complete,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Rajat Kumar Jenamani , Rahul Kumar , Parth Mall , Kushal Kedia