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We present an efficient approach for generating highly accurate molecular potential energy surfaces (PESs) using self-correcting, kernel ridge regression (KRR) based machine learning (ML). We introduce structure-based sampling to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Pavlo O. Dral , Alec Owens , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Walter Thiel

Hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions are essential in many biological processes, such as radical migration in damaged proteins, but their mechanistic pathways remain incompletely understood. Simulating HAT is challenging due to the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Marlen Neubert , Patrick Reiser , Frauke Gräter , Pascal Friederich

An efficient and trajectory-free active learning method is proposed to automatically sample data points for constructing globally accurate reactive potential energy surfaces (PESs) using neural networks (NNs). Although NNs do not provide…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Qidong Lin , Yaolong Zhang , Bin Zhao , Bin Jiang

We propose a machine-learning approach based on Bayesian optimization to build global potential energy surfaces (PES) for reactive molecular systems using feedback from quantum scattering calculations. The method is designed to correct for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 R. A. Vargas-Hernández , Y. Guan , D. H. Zhang , R. V. Krems

Stochastic electronic structure theories, e.g., Quantum Monte Carlo methods, enable highly accurate total energy calculations which in principle can be used to construct highly accurate potential energy surfaces. However, their stochastic…

The idea of a Potential Energy Surface (PES) forms the basis of almost all accounts of the mechanisms of chemical reactions, and much of theoretical molecular spectroscopy. It is assumed that, in principle, the PES can be calculated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Brian Sutcliffe , R. Guy Woolley

The modeling of solid-state transformations, such as polymorphic transitions and chemical reactions in molecular crystals, is vital for many applications including drug design or the development of new synthesis methods. However, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Natalia Goncharova , Johannes Hoja

The construction of the potential energy surface (PES) of even a medium-sized molecule employing correlated theory, such as CCSD(T), is an arduous task due to the high computational cost. In this Letter, we report the possibility of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Subodh S. Khire , Nalini D. Gurav , Apurba Nandi , Shridhar R. Gadre

Reaction probabilities as a function of total angular momentum and the resulting reaction cross-sections for the collision of open shell S($^1$D) atoms with para-hydrogen have been calculated in the kinetic energy range 0.09--10 meV (1--120…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Lara , P. G. Jambrina , A. J. C. Varandas , J. -M. Launay , F. J. Aoiz

Molecular adsorption at organic/metal interfaces depends on a range of mechanisms: covalent bonds, charge transfer, Pauli repulsion and van der Waals (vdW) interactions shape the potential energy surface (PES), making it key to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Lukas Hörmann , Andreas Jeindl , Oliver T. Hofmann

We explore the performance of a statistical learning technique based on Gaussian Process (GP) regression as an efficient non-parametric method for constructing multi-dimensional potential energy surfaces (PES) for polyatomic molecules.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Jie Cui , Roman V. Krems

Highly accurate force fields are a mandatory requirement to generate predictive simulations. Here we present the path for the construction of machine learned molecular force fields by discussing the hierarchical pathway from generating the…

Globally accurate full-dimensional ground state potential energy surface (PES) for the Cl($^2$P) + XCl $\to$ HCl + Cl($^2$P) reaction, a prototypical heavy-light-heavy abstract reaction, is developed using permutation invariant polynomial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Qiang Li , Mingjuan Yang , Hongwei Song , Yongle Li

The accurate modeling of non-covalent interactions between helium and graphitic materials is important for understanding quantum phenomena in reduced dimensions, with the helium-benzene complex serving as the fundamental prototype. However,…

We present a combination of the incremental expansion of potential energy surfaces (PESs), known as n-mode expansion, with the incremental evaluation of the electronic energy in a many-body approach. The application of semi-local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Carolin König , Ove Christiansen

Accurate determination of transition states is central to an understanding of reaction kinetics. Double-endpoint methods where both initial and final states are specified, such as the climbing image nudged elastic band (CI-NEB), identify…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Rohit Goswami , Miha Gunde , Hannes Jónsson

The nudged elastic band (NEB) method is one of the most widely used techniques for determining minimum-energy reaction pathways and activation barriers between known initial and final states. However, conventional implementations face steep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qiuhan Jia , Jiuyang Shi , Jian Sun

Mixed-dimensional heterostructures composed of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) materials are undisputed next-generation materials for engineered devices due to their changeable properties. The present work computationally…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-14 Vidushi Sharma , Dibakar Datta

The potential energy surface (PES) of molecules with respect to their nuclear positions is a primary tool in understanding chemical reactions from first principles. However, obtaining this information is complicated by the fact that…

In recent years, many types of machine learning potentials (MLPs) have been introduced, which are able to represent high-dimensional potential-energy surfaces (PES) with close to first-principles accuracy. Most current MLPs rely on atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Marius Herbold , Jörg Behler