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In this work, we study the damage in crystalline molybdenum material samples due to neutron bombardment in a primary knock-on atom range of 0.5-10 keV at room temperature. We perform machine learned molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 F. J. Dominguez-Gutierrez , J. Byggmästar , K. Nordlund , F. Djurabekova , U. von Toussaint

$\mathrm{Ga}_{2}\mathrm{O}_{3}$ is a wide-bandgap semiconductor of emergent importance for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. However, vital information of the properties of complex coexisting $\mathrm{Ga}_{2}\mathrm{O}_{3}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-19 Junlei Zhao , Jesper Byggmästar , Huan He , Kai Nordlund , Flyura Djurabekova , Mengyuan Hua

We explore different ways to simplify the evaluation of the smooth overlap of atomic positions (SOAP) many-body atomic descriptor [Bart\'{o}k et al., Phys. Rev. B 87, 184115 (2013)]. Our aim is to improve the computational efficiency of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-16 Miguel A. Caro

An accurate description of atomic interactions, such as that provided by first principles quantum mechanics, is fundamental to realistic prediction of the properties that govern plasticity, fracture or crack propagation in metals. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-14 Wojciech Jerzy Szlachta

Hydrogenation of amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) is critical for reducing defect densities, passivating mid-gap states and surfaces, and improving photoconductivity in silicon-based electro-optical devices. Modelling the atomic scale structure…

High-Temperature Superconductors (HTS) such as YBa2Cu3O7-delta (YBCO) are essential for next-generation Tokamak fusion reactors, where Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxides (REBCO) form the functional layers in HTS magnets. Because YBCO's…

In an effort to build a stronger microscopic foundation for radiation damage models in gallium arsenide (GaAs), the electronic properties of radiation-induced damage clusters are studied with atomistic simulations. Molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-07 Jonathan E. Moussa , Stephen M. Foiles , Peter A. Schultz

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…

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) based on tungsten (W) have emerged as promising candidates for plasma-facing components in future fusion reactors, owing to their excellent irradiation resistance. In this study, we construct an efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 Jiahui Liu , Jesper Byggmastar , Zheyong Fan , Bing Bai , Ping Qian , Yanjing Su

Simulating collision cascades and radiation damage poses a long-standing challenge for existing interatomic potentials, both in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Machine-learning based interatomic potentials have shown sufficiently high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Jiahui Liu , Jesper Byggmastar , Zheyong Fan , Ping Qian , Yanjing Su

The size and morphology of defect clusters formed during primary damage play a crucial role in the subsequent microstructural evolution of irradiated materials. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of collision cascades in tungsten (W) were…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-05 M. Warrier , U. Bhardwaj

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of successive collision cascades within the same simulation domain were performed using two different inter-atomic potentials (IAP) in tungsten, one EAM based and the other a `quantum accurate' machine…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-27 Utkarsh Bhardwaj , Manoj Warrier

Phase change materials such as Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{5}$ (GST) are ideal candidates for next-generation, non-volatile, solid-state memory due to the ability to retain binary data in the amorphous and crystal phases, and rapidly transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-14 Owen R. Dunton , Tom Arbaugh , Francis W. Starr

A method for performing variable-width (thawed) Gaussian wavepacket (GWP) variational dynamics on machine-learned potentials is presented. Instead of fitting the potential energy surface (PES), the anharmonic correction to the global…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Rami Gherib , Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Scott N. Genin

Machine Learning (ML) potentials such as Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in mapping structure to properties across diverse systems. Here, we introduce a GAP model for low-dimensional Ni…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Suvo Banik , Partha Sarathi Dutta , Sukriti Manna , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

We present a general-purpose machine learning (ML) interatomic potential for carbon and hydrogen which is capable of simulating various materials and molecules composed of these elements. This ML interatomic potential is trained using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Rina Ibragimova , Mikhail S. Kuklin , Tigany Zarrouk , Miguel A. Caro

Niobium (Nb) and its alloys are extensively used in various technological applications owing to their favorable mechanical, thermal and irradiation properties. Accurately modeling Nb under irradiation is essential for predicting…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-06 Utkarsh Bhardwaj , Vinayak Mishra , Suman Mondal , Manoj Warrier

Accurate prediction of radiation damage in YBa$_2$Cu$3$O${7-\delta}$ (YBCO) is essential for assessing the performance of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes in compact fusion reactors. Existing empirical interatomic potentials…

We introduce a class of interatomic potential models that can be automatically generated from data consisting of the energies and forces experienced by atoms, derived from quantum mechanical calculations. The resulting model does not have a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Albert P. Bartók , Mike C. Payne , Risi Kondor , Gábor Csányi

We have developed a new machine learned interatomic potential for the prototypical austenitic steel Fe$_{7}$Cr$_{2}$Ni, using the Gaussian approximation potential (GAP) framework. This new GAP can model the alloy's properties with close to…