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In recent years, efficient inter-atomic potentials approaching the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been developed using rigorous atomic descriptors satisfying strict invariances, for example, to translation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-18 Xiang-Guo Li , Chongze Hu , Chi Chen , Zhi Deng , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong

The development of machine learning sheds new light on the traditionally complicated problem of thermodynamics in multicomponent alloys. Successful application of such a method, however, strongly depends on the quality of the data and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-10 Xianglin Liu , Jiaxin Zhang , Markus Eisenbach , Yang Wang

We develop a machine-learned interatomic potential for AlCrCuFeNi high-entropy alloys (HEA) using a diverse set of structures from density functional theory calculated including magnetic effects. The potential is based on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 Aslak Fellman , Jesper Byggmästar , Fredric Granberg , Flyura Djurabekova , Kai Nordlund

Parameterized tight-binding models fit to first principles calculations can provide an efficient and accurate quantum mechanical method for predicting properties of molecules and solids. However, well-tested parameter sets are generally…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-28 Kevin F. Garrity , Kamal Choudhary

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

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 propose a novel active learning scheme for automatically sampling a minimum number of uncorrelated configurations for fitting the Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP). Our active learning scheme consists of an unsupervised machine…

Machine-learning interatomic potentials have emerged as a revolutionary class of force-field models in molecular simulations, delivering quantum-mechanical accuracy at a fraction of the computational cost and enabling the simulation of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Yajie Ji , Jiuyang Liang , Zhenli Xu

Multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) exhibit exceptional properties but face significant challenges in developing accurate machine-learning potentials (MLPs) due to their vast compositional and configurational complexity. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Yan Liu , Jiantao Wang , Hongkun Deng , Yan Sun , Xing-Qiu Chen , Peitao Liu

In contrast to their empirical counterparts, machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIAPs) promise to deliver near-quantum accuracy over broad regions of configuration space. However, due to their generic functional forms and extreme…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Aparna P. A. Subramanyam , Danny Perez

The parameters of many-body potentials for Co, Nb and Zr metals, based on the embedded-atom method, have been systematically derived. The analytical potential scheme allows us to reproduce correctly the cohesive energies and structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-02 Pascal Thibaudeau , Julian Gale

Potentials that could accurately describe the irradiation damage processes are highly desired to figure out the atomic-level response of various newly-discovered materials under irradiation environments. In this work, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-20 Hao Wang , Xun Guo , Jianming Xue

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

Machine-learned interatomic potentials can offer near first-principles accuracy but are computationally expensive, limiting their application to large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. Inspired by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Fraser Birks , Matthew Nutter , Thomas D Swinburne , James R Kermode

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

Developing machine learning-based interatomic potentials from ab-initio electronic structure methods remains a challenging task for computational chemistry and materials science. This work studies the capability of transfer learning, in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Viktor Zaverkin , David Holzmüller , Luca Bonfirraro , Johannes Kästner

Discovering new superionic materials is essential for advancing solid-state batteries, which offer improved energy density and safety compared to the traditional lithium-ion batteries with liquid electrolytes. Conventional computational…

Large-scale atomistic computer simulations of materials rely on interatomic potentials providing computationally efficient predictions of energy and Newtonian forces. Traditional potentials have served in this capacity for over three…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-04 Y. Mishin

Atomistic simulations can provide useful insights into the physical properties of multi-principal-element alloys. However, classical potentials mostly fail to capture key quantum (electronic-structure) effects. We present a deep 3D…

Simulation techniques based on accurate and efficient representations of potential energy surfaces are urgently needed for the understanding of complex aqueous systems such as solid-liquid interfaces. Here, we present a machine learning…