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Molecular mechanics (MM) potentials have long been a workhorse of computational chemistry. Leveraging accuracy and speed, these functional forms find use in a wide variety of applications in biomolecular modeling and drug discovery, from…
An active learning procedure called Deep Potential Generator (DP-GEN) is proposed for the construction of accurate and transferable machine learning-based models of the potential energy surface (PES) for the molecular modeling of materials.…
In this paper, we propose an efficient parallelization strategy for boundary element method (BEM) solvers that perform the electromagnetic analysis of structures with lossy conductors. The proposed solver is accelerated with the adaptive…
The catalyst development for N2 electroreduction reaction (NRR) with low onset potential and high Faradaic efficiency is highly desired, but remains challenging. Machine learning (ML) recently emerged as a complementary tool to accelerate…
Geometry optimization is an important part of both computational materials and surface science because it is the path to finding ground state atomic structures and reaction pathways. These properties are used in the estimation of…
We present an exhaustive study of more than 250 ab initio potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the model dipeptide HCO-L-Ala-NH2. The model chemistries (MCs) used are constructed as homo- and heterolevels involving possibly different RHF and…
Accurately modeling gas-surface collision dynamics presents a great challenge for theory, especially in the low energy (or temperature) regime where quantum effects are important. Here, a path integral based non-equilibrium ring polymer…
Multireference methods such as multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT) offer an effective means of capturing electronic correlation in systems with significant multiconfigurational character. However, their application…
Accounting for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) can significantly alter material properties at finite temperatures. Atomic modeling using the path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method can fully account for such effects, but requires…
We created a computational workflow to analyze the potential energy surface (PES) of materials using machine-learned interatomic potentials in conjunction with the minima hopping algorithm. We demonstrate this method by producing a…
Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) provide near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy at reduced computational cost, but their reliability depends on representative training data and often deteriorates in transition-state…
The free energy profile of a reaction can be estimated in a molecular-dynamics approach by imposing a mechanical constraint along a reaction coordinate (RC). Many recent studies have shown that the temperature can greatly influence the path…
The ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) rate theory is an efficient and accurate method for estimating rate coefficients of chemical reactions affected by nuclear quantum effects. The commonly used RPMD treatment of gas-phase bimolecular…
To further develop accurate and large-scale simulations of electrochemical interfaces, we propose a unified explicit electric potential framework to simultaneously predict atomic forces and electron density distributions. The framework…
The boundary element method (BEM) enables solving three-dimensional electromagnetic problems using a two-dimensional surface mesh, making it appealing for applications ranging from electrical interconnect analysis to the design of…
We discuss a theoretical approach that employs machine learning potential energy surfaces (ML-PESs) in the nonadiabatic dynamics simulation of polyatomic systems by taking 6-aminopyrimidine as a typical example. The Zhu-Nakamura theory is…
Implicit solvent models, such as Poisson-Boltzmann models, play important roles in computational studies of biomolecules. A vital step in almost all implicit solvent models is to determine the solvent-solute interface, and the solvent…
We develop a broadly-applicable computational method for the automatic exploration of the bimolecular multi-reaction mechanism. The current methodology mainly involves the high-energy Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulation…
This paper presents two new adiabatic, global potential energy surfaces (PESs) for the two lowest $^3A'$ and $^3A''$ electronic states of the O($^3P$)+H$_2$ system. For each of these states, ab initio electronic energies were calculated for…
We present a modified nudged elastic band routine that can reduce the number of force calls by more than 50% for bands with non-uniform convergence. The method, which we call "dyNEB", dynamically and selectively optimizes states based on…