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Data-driven, machine learning (ML) models of atomistic interactions are often based on flexible and non-physical functions that can relate nuanced aspects of atomic arrangements into predictions of energies and forces. As a result, these…

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Machine learning potentials have revolutionised the field of atomistic simulations in recent years and are becoming a mainstay in the toolbox of computational scientists. This paper aims to provide an overview and introduction into machine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Fabian L. Thiemann , Niamh O'Neill , Venkat Kapil , Angelos Michaelides , Christoph Schran

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

Interatomic potentials are essential for driving molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, directly impacting the reliability of predictions regarding the physical and chemical properties of materials. In recent years, machine-learned potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Penghua Ying , Cheng Qian , Rui Zhao , Yanzhou Wang , Feng Ding , Shunda Chen , Zheyong Fan

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and have been applied across various domains in physical science. However, their performance often relies on…

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In the last few years, much efforts have gone into developing universal machine-learning potentials able to describe interactions for a wide range of structures and phases. Yet, as attention turns to more complex materials including alloys,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-23 Eugène Sanscartier , Félix Saint-Denis , Karl-Étienne Bolduc , Normand Mousseau

We present a physically motivated strategy for the construction of training sets for transferable machine learning interatomic potentials. It is based on a systematic exploration of all possible space groups in random crystal structures,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-29 Marvin Poul , Liam Huber , Erik Bitzek , Jörg Neugebauer

The rapid development of pretrained Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) that cover a wide range of molecular species has made it challenging to select the best model for a given application. We benchmark 15 pretrained MLIPs,…

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Machine learning plays an increasingly important role in computational chemistry and materials science, complementing computationally intensive ab initio and first-principles methods. Despite their utility, machine-learning models often…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Makoto Takamoto , Viktor Zaverkin , Mathias Niepert

Machine learning potentials offer a revolutionary, unifying framework for molecular simulations across scales, from quantum chemistry to coarse-grained models. Here, I explore their potential to dramatically improve accuracy and scalability…

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Accurate prediction of surface energies and stabilities is essential for materials design, yet first-principles calculations remain computationally expensive and most existing interatomic potentials are trained only on bulk systems. Here,…

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The use of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) in simulations of materials is a state-of-the-art approach, which allows achieving nearly \textit{ab initio} accuracy with orders of magnitude less computational cost.…

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Synthesis of advanced inorganic materials with minimum number of trials is of paramount importance towards the acceleration of inorganic materials development. The enormous complexity involved in existing multi-variable synthesis methods…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-02 Bijun Tang , Yuhao Lu , Jiadong Zhou , Han Wang , Prafful Golani , Manzhang Xu , Quan Xu , Cuntai Guan , Zheng Liu

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

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable atomistic simulations with near ab initio accuracy at significantly reduced computational cost, but their broader adoption is often limited by fragmented tooling, limited scalability,…

Simulations at the atomic scale provide a direct and effective way to understand the mechanical properties of materials. In the regime of classical mechanics, simulations for the thermodynamic properties of metals and alloys can be done by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Ka-Ming Tam , Nicholas Walker , Samuel Kellar , Mark Jarrell

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable the accurate simulation of materials at larger sizes and time scales, and play increasingly important roles in the computational understanding and design of materials. However, MLIPs…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Ji Qi , Tsz Wai Ko , Brandon C. Wood , Tuan Anh Pham , Shyue Ping Ong

The past decade has witnessed a spectacular development of machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs), to the extent that they are already the approach of choice for most atomistic simulation studies not requiring an explicit treatment…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-24 Iñigo Robredo-Magro , Binayak Mukherjee , Hugo Aramberri , Jorge Íñiguez-González

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) and their widespread applications in chemistry, physics, and material science. By fitting discrete ab initio data faithfully to continuous and…

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