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We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

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We present the development and applications of a quadratic Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential (q-SNAP) for ferromagnetic cobalt. Trained on Density Functional Theory calculations using the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (DFT-PBE) functional, this…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-05 Marthe Bideault , Jérôme Creuze , Ryoji Asahi , Erich Wimmer

MgSiO_3-perovskite (MgPv) plays a crucial role in the Earth's lower mantle. This study combines deep-learning potential (DP) with density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the structural and elastic properties of MgPv under lower…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Tianqi Wan , Chenxing Luo , Yang Sun , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

With the demand for renewable energy and efficient devices rapidly increasing, a need arises to find and optimize novel (nano)materials. This can be an extremely tedious process, often relying significantly on trial and error. Machine…

Machine learning has emerged as an invaluable tool in many research areas. In the present work, we harness this power to predict highly accurate molecular infrared spectra with unprecedented computational efficiency. To account for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Michael Gastegger , Jörg Behler , Philipp Marquetand

Analog computing using non-volatile memristors has emerged as a promising solution for energy-efficient deep learning. New materials, like perovskites-based memristors are recently attractive due to their cost-effectiveness, energy…

The advancement of spin-based devices as a replacement for CMOS technology demands lower spin-switching energy in ferromagnetic (FM) materials. Ferroelectric (FE) materials offer a promising avenue for influencing FM properties, yet the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Dameul Jeong , Seoung-Hun Kang , Young-Kyun Kwon

First-principles molecular dynamics simulations have been employed to analyze the proton diffusion in cubic BaZrO3 perovskite at 1300K, and a non-linear effect of an applied isometric strain of 2% on the lattice parameter has been observed.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-30 Marco Fronzi , Yoshitaka Tateyama , Nicola Marzari , Enrico Traversa

Machine learning (ML) based interatomic potentials are emerging tools for materials simulations but require a trade-off between accuracy and speed. Here we show how one can use one ML potential model to train another: we use an existing,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-20 Joe D. Morrow , Volker L. Deringer

Structural phase transitions as a function of temperature dictate the structure--functionality relationships in many technologically important materials. Harmonic Hamiltonians have proven successful in predicting the vibrational properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-09 John C. Thomas , Jonathon S. Bechtel , Anirudh Raju Natarajan , Anton Van der Ven

The simulation of borosilicate glasses is challenging due to the composition and temperature dependent coordination state of boron atoms. Here, we present a newly developed machine learning optimized classical potential for molecular…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-20 Kai Yang , Ruoxia Chen , Anders K. R. Christensen , Mathieu Bauchy , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Morten M. Smedskjaer , Fabian Rosner

While molecular dynamics (MD) is a very useful computational method for atomistic simulations, modeling the interatomic interactions for reliable MD simulations of real materials has been a long-standing challenge. In 2007, Behler and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Ling Tang , Weiyi Xia , Gayatri Viswanathan , Ernesto Soto , Kirill Kovnir , Cai-Zhuang Wang

Molecular Dynamics is applied to Ferroelectric Perovskites in the framework of a first-principles derived effective Hamiltonian (Zhong, Vanderbilt, Rabe, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 73} (1994), 1861). The degrees of freedom, that obey the Newton…

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Reactive chemistry of molecular hydrogen at surfaces, notably dissociative sticking and hydrogen evolution, plays a crucial role in energy storage and fuel cells. Theoretical studies can help to decipher underlying mechanisms and reaction…

An interatomic potential for Al-Tb alloy around the composition of Al90Tb10 was developed using the deep neural network (DNN) learning method. The atomic configurations and the corresponding total potential energies and forces on each atom…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-19 L. Tang , Z. J. Yang , T. Q. Wen , K. M. Ho , M. J. Kramer , C. Z. Wang

The first-principles-based effective Hamiltonian scheme provides one of the most accurate modeling technique for large-scale structures, especially for ferroelectrics. However, the parameterization of the effective Hamiltonian is…

Modeling ferroelectric materials from first principles is one of the successes of density-functional theory, and the driver of much development effort, requiring an accurate description of the electronic processes and the thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Lorenzo Gigli , Max Veit , Michele Kotiuga , Giovanni Pizzi , Nicola Marzari , Michele Ceriotti

In this concept paper, the development of strategies for the integration of first-principles methods with crystallographic database mining for the discovery and design of novel ferroelectric materials is discussed, drawing on the results…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-24 Joseph W. Bennett , Karin M. Rabe

First-principles based modeling on phonon dynamics and transport using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equation has proven powerful in predicting thermal conductivity of crystalline materials, but it remains unfeasible for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Xin Qian , Shenyou Peng , Xiaobo Li , Yujie Wei , Ronggui Yang

Rational design of interface passivators for perovskite solar cells is hindered by the entanglement of intrinsic molecular efficacy with extrinsic platform-dependent performance - a confounding factor that obscures true chemical advances.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-04 Jing Zhang , Ziyuan Li , Shan Gao , Zhen Zhu , Jing Wang , Xiangmei Duan