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A method is presented for generating a good initial guess of a transition path between given initial and final states of a system without evaluation of the energy. An objective function surface is constructed using an interpolation of…
The nudged elastic band (NEB) and Dimer methods are standard tools for computing minimum-energy paths and index-one saddle points in atomistic transition problems. They are increasingly driven by surrogate or learned force models, whose…
Many chemical reactions and molecular processes occur on timescales that are significantly longer than those accessible by direct simulation. One successful approach to estimating dynamical statistics for such processes is to use many short…
Transition states and minimum energy paths are essential to understand and predict chemical reactivity. Double-ended methods represent a standard approach for their determination. We introduce a new double-ended method that optimizes…
When examining dynamics occurring at non-zero temperatures, both energy and entropy must be taken into account while describing activated barrier crossing events. Furthermore, good reaction coordinates need to be constructed to describe…
This study examines a new formulation of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which gives a conditional derivation of the ``maximum entropy production'' (MEP) principle for flow and/or chemical reaction systems at steady state. The analysis uses…
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) opens the possibility for spatial control of as-fabricated microstructure and properties. However, since the solid state diffusional transformations that drive microstructure outcomes are governed by…
Estimating the rate of rare conformational changes in molecular systems is one of the goals of Molecular Dynamics simulations. In the past decades, a lot of progress has been done in data-based approaches towards this problem. In contrast,…
Though offering unprecedented pathways to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of technologically-relevant materials and conditions, machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are typically trained for ``simple'' materials and…
We show how thermodynamic properties of molecular models can be computed over a large, multidimensional parameter space by combining multistate reweighting analysis with a linear basis function approach. This approach reduces the…
As titanium is a highly utilized metal for structural light-weighting, its phases, transformation pathways (transition states), and structures have scientific and industrial importance. Impurities, pressure, and temperature control the…
Chainwise stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (C-STIRAP) in M-type molecular system is a good alternative in creating ultracold deeply-bound molecules when the typical STIRAP in {\Lambda}-type system does not work due to weak Frank-Condon…
We present a novel formalism to characterize elastic heterogeneities in amorphous solids. In particular, we derive high-order strain-energy expansions for pairwise energies under athermal quasistatic dynamics. We then use the presented…
Mapping reaction pathways and transition states (TS) is fundamental to chemistry but computationally expensive at scale. The minimum energy pathway (MEP) dictates reaction rates and mechanisms, yet recovering it via electronic-structure…
The calculation of electronic properties of materials is an important task of solid state theory, albeit particularly difficult if electronic correlations are strong, for example in transition metals, their oxides and in f-electron systems.…
The newly developed machine learning (ML) empirical pseudopotential (EP) method overcomes the poor transferability of the traditional EP method with the help of ML techniques while preserving its formal simplicity and computational…
Aligning theoretical atomistic structural models of materials with available experimental data presents a significant challenge for disordered systems. The configurational space to navigate is vast, and faithful realizations require large…
We suggest and analyze a novel technique for efficient and robust creation of dense ultracold molecular ensembles in their ground rovibrational state. In our approach a molecule is brought to the ground state through a series of…
Diamond, the hardest natural crystal, has attracted significant attention for its plasticity, which is reported to be determined by its stacking faults. Studies mainly focused on one-dimensional linear pathways in stacking transitions,…