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Machine-learned interatomic potentials are revolutionising atomistic materials simulations by providing accurate and scalable predictions within the scope covered by the training data. However, generation of an accurate and robust training…

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The development of differentiable invariant descriptors for accurate representations of atomic environments plays a central role in the success of interatomic potentials for chemistry and materials science. We introduce a method to generate…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen

Smooth model potentials with parameters selected to reproduce the spectrum of one-electron atoms are used to approximate the singular Coulomb potential. Even when the potentials do not mimic the Coulomb singularity, much of the spectrum is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-10-28 Cristina E. González-Espinoza , Paul. W Ayers , Jacek Karwowski , Andreas Savin

We derive the atomistic representations of the elastic tensors appearing in the linearized theory of first strain-gradient elasticity for an arbitrary multi-lattice. In addition to the classical (2nd-Piola) stress and elastic moduli…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Nikhil Chandra Admal , Jaime Marian , Giacomo Po

Using an accurate semi-analytic wavefunction for two electron atoms, we construct the external potential for varying strength of electron-electron (e-e) interaction. Using this potential we explicitly calculate the energy of their positive…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-02-18 Rabeet Singh Chauhan , Manoj K. Harbola

The dependence of macroscopic detonation properties of a two-dimensional diatomic (AB) molecular system on the fundamental properties of the molecule were investigated. This includes examining the detonation velocity, reaction zone…

The mechanisms of physical and chemical interactions of low temperature plasmas with surfaces can be fruitfully explored using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. MD simulations follow the detailed motion of sets of interacting atoms…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 David B. Graves , Pascal Brault

Atomistic theory holds the promise for the ab initio development of superalloys based on the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. The last years showed a rapid progress in the field. Results from atomistic modeling enter…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-08 Thomas Hammerschmidt , Jutta Rogal , Erik Bitzek , Ralf Drautz

This communication is both a pedagogical note for understanding polyatomic modelling in kinetic theory and a ''cheat sheet'' for a series of corresponding concepts and formulas. We explain, detail and relate three possible approaches for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Marzia Bisi , Thomas Borsoni , Maria Groppi

We consider a class of particle systems which appear in various applications such as approximation theory, plasticity, potential theory and space-filling designs. The positions of the particles on the real line are described as a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Patrick van Meurs , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

Quantum simulations of complex fermionic systems suffer from a variety of challenging problems. In an effort to circumvent these challenges, simpler ``semi-classical'' approaches have been used to mimic fermionic correlations through a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Taruna , J. Piekarewicz , M. A. Perez-Garcia

Statistical systems composed of atoms interacting with each other trough nonintegrable interaction potentials are considered. Examples of these potentials are hard-core potentials and long-range potentials, for instance, the Lennard-Jones…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 V. I. Yukalov

To reproduce the diamond structure of silicon, double lattice (DL) potential constructed from two interatomic potentials for face centered cubic (fcc) lattice, is proposed for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For the validity test of MD…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-12 Hui Zhang , Chongyang Wei , Zhongwu Liu , Xichun Zhong , Dongling Jiao , Wanqi Qiu , Hongya Yu

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

A transferable tight-binding potential has been constructed for heteroatomic systems containing carbon and hydrogen. The electronic degree of freedom is treated explicitly in this potential using a small set of transferable parameters which…

chem-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 Yang Wang , C. H. Mak

Machine learning is used to generate empirical pseudopotentials that characterize the local screened interactions in the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Our approach incorporates momentum-range-separated rotation-covariant descriptors to capture…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-08 Rokyeon Kim , Young-Woo Son

Previous studies have used numerical methods to optimize the hyperpolarizability of a one-dimensional quantum system. These studies were used to suggest properties of one-dimensional organic molecules, such as the degree of modulation of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Urszula B. Szafruga , Mark G. Kuzyk , David S. Watkins

A plasma transport theory that spans weak to strong coupling is developed from a binary collision picture, but where the interaction potential is taken to be an effective potential that includes correlation effects and screening…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Scott D. Baalrud , Jerome Daligault

Interatomic potentials are essential to go beyond ab initio size limitations, but simulation results depend sensitively on potential parameters. Forward propagation of parameter variation is key for uncertainty quantification, whilst…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-16 Ivan Maliyov , Petr Grigorev , Thomas D Swinburne

In Molecular Dynamics (MD), the forces applied to atoms derive from potentials which describe the energy of bonds, valence angles, torsion angles, and Lennard-Jones interactions of which molecules are made. These de finitions are classic;…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-07 Bernard Monasse , Frédéric Boussinot