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Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are gaining attention as an alternative to classical force fields (FFs) by using deep learning models trained on density functional theory (DFT) data to improve interatomic potential accuracy. In this…

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Electrochemical processes play a crucial role in energy storage and conversion systems, yet their computational modeling remains a significant challenge. Accurately incorporating the effects of electric potential has been a central focus in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Jingwen Zhou , Yunsong Fu , Ling Liu , Chungen Liu

Global machine learning force fields (MLFFs), that have the capacity to capture collective many-atom interactions in molecular systems, currently only scale up to a few dozen atoms due a considerable growth of the model complexity with…

Theoretical studies on chemical reaction mechanisms have been crucial in organic chemistry. Traditionally, calculating the manually constructed molecular conformations of transition states for chemical reactions using quantum chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Sihao Yuan , Xu Han , Jun Zhang , Zhaoxin Xie , Cheng Fan , Yunlong Xiao , Yi Qin Gao , Yi Isaac Yang

In molecular simulations, machine-learning force fields can achieve ab initio accuracy at a lower cost but remain limited in the explicit modeling of electrons. In this work, we develop an electron-aware machine-learning force field, in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Ruiqi Gao , Pinchen Xie , Roberto Car

Machine learning force fields (MLFF) have been proposed to accelerate molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which finds widespread applications in chemistry and biomedical research. Even for the most data-efficient MLFFs, reaching chemical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-07 Alexander Bukharin , Tianyi Liu , Shengjie Wang , Simiao Zuo , Weihao Gao , Wen Yan , Tuo Zhao

Point defects play a central role in driving the properties of materials. First-principles methods are widely used to compute defect energetics and structures, including at scale for high-throughput defect databases. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Evan Dramko , Yihuang Xiong , Yizhi Zhu , Geoffroy Hautier , Thomas Reps , Christopher Jermaine , Anastasios Kyrillidis

We present an approach to generate machine-learned force fields (MLFF) with beyond density functional theory (DFT) accuracy. Our approach combines on-the-fly active learning and $\Delta$-machine learning in order to generate an MLFF for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-02 Peitao Liu , Carla Verdi , Ferenc Karsai , Georg Kresse

Predicting the adsorption affinity of a small molecule to a target surface is of importance to a range of fields, from catalysis to drug delivery and human safety, but a complex task to perform computationally when taking into account the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Ian Rouse , Vladimir Lobaskin

Large density functional theory (DFT) databases are a treasure trove of energies, forces and stresses that can be used to train machine learned interatomic potentials for atomistic modeling. Herein, we employ structural relaxations from the…

The large number of possible structures of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their limitless potential applications has motivated molecular modelers and researchers to develop methods and models to efficiently assess MOF performance. Some…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-04 Krishnendu Mukherjee , Alexander W. Dowling , Yamil Colón

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) have revolutionized molecular simulations by providing quantum mechanical accuracy at the speed of molecular mechanical computations. However, a fundamental reliance of these models on fixed-cutoff…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Chu Wang , Lin Huang , Xinran Wei , Tao Qin , Arthur Jiang , Lixue Cheng , Jia Zhang

Density functional theory (DFT) underpins modern atomistic simulations of transition-metal surfaces. It can predict key properties linked to catalytic performance, such as adsorption energies and barrier heights, enabling new paradigms in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Benjamin X. Shi , Timothy C. Berkelbach

Engineering molecular systems that exhibit complex behavior requires the design of kinetic barriers. For example, an effective catalytic pathway must have a large barrier when the catalyst is absent. While programming such energy barriers…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Keenan Breik , Cameron Chalk , David Doty , David Haley , David Soloveichik

We present evidence that learned density functional theory (``DFT'') force fields are ready for ground state catalyst discovery. Our key finding is that relaxation using forces from a learned potential yields structures with similar or…

The ability to accurately model interatomic interactions in large-scale systems is fundamental to understanding a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena, from drug-protein binding to the behavior of next-generation materials. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-26 Taskin Mehereen , Sourav Saha , Intesar Jawad Jaigirdar , Chanwook Park

This work examines challenges associated with the accuracy of machine-learned force fields (MLFFs) for bulk solid and liquid phases of d-block elements. In exhaustive detail, we contrast the performance of force, energy, and stress…

Foundational machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are being developed at a rapid pace, promising closer and closer approximation to ab initio accuracy. This unlocks the possibility to simulate much larger length and time scales.…

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We train an equivariant machine learning model to predict energies and forces for a real-world study of hydrogen combustion under conditions of finite temperature and pressure. This challenging case for reactive chemistry illustrates that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xingyi Guan , Joseph Heindel , Taehee Ko , Chao Yang , Teresa Head-Gordon

Finding the "ideal" catalyst is a matter of great interest in the communities of chemists and material scientists, partly because of its wide spectrum of industrial applications. Information regarding a physical parameter termed "adsorption…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-08 Sanjay Nayak , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Jung-Hae Choi , Seung Cheol Lee