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Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) are a modern computational method that allows achieving near-quantum mechanical accuracy (DFT) while still describing large-scale systems in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-13 Le Huu Nghia , Pham Thi Bich Thao , Truong Do Anh Kha , Vo Khuong Dien , Nguyen Thanh Tien

Ab initio simulations of dislocations are essential to build quantitative models of material strength, but the required system sizes are often at or beyond the limit of existing methods. Many important structures are thus missing in the…

Ab initio simulations are capable of providing detailed information of material behavior at the nanoscale. Simulating experimentally relevant situations is, however, often computationally intense. Using hybrid approaches between ab initio…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Michael Sluydts , Michiel Larmuseau , Johan Lauwaert , Stefaan Cottenier

Machine learning (ML) based interatomic potentials are emerging tools for materials simulations but require a trade-off between accuracy and speed. Here we show how one can use one ML potential model to train another: we use an existing,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-20 Joe D. Morrow , Volker L. Deringer

We develop an empirical potential for silicon which represents a considerable improvement over existing models in describing local bonding for bulk defects and disordered phases. The model consists of two- and three-body interactions with…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Joao F. Justo , Martin Z. Bazant , Efthimios Kaxiras , V. V. Bulatov , Sidney Yip

Machine learning (ML) has become a commonplace approach in the development of interatomic potentials for molecular dynamics simulations, and its use also for radiation effect modelling is increasing. In this work, we investigate the effects…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 A. Fellman , J. Byggmästar , F. Granberg , F. Djurabekova , K. Nordlund

Machine learning interatomic potentials (ML-IAPs) enable quantum-accurate, classical molecular dynamics simulations of large systems, beyond reach of density functional theory (DFT). Yet, their efficiency and ability to predict systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Gábor Csányi , Erik van der Giessen , Francesco Maresca

We present a physically motivated strategy for the construction of training sets for transferable machine learning interatomic potentials. It is based on a systematic exploration of all possible space groups in random crystal structures,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-29 Marvin Poul , Liam Huber , Erik Bitzek , Jörg Neugebauer

Molecular dynamics simulations of 3C-SiC have been performed as a function of pressure and temperature. These simulations treat both electrons and atomic nuclei by quantum mechanical methods. While the electronic structure of the solid is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Rafael Ramirez , Carlos P. Herrero , Eduardo R. Hernandez , Manuel Cardona

The development of machine learning models has led to an abundance of datasets containing quantum mechanical (QM) calculations for molecular and material systems. However, traditional training methods for machine learning models are unable…

We show that a deep-learning neural network potential (DP) based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations can well describe Cu-Zr materials, an example of a binary alloy system that can coexist in several ordered intermetallics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 Christopher M. Andolina , Philip Williamson , Wissam A. Saidi

Finding new materials with previously unknown atomic structure or materials with optimal set of properties for a specific application greatly benefits from computational modeling. Recently, such screening has been dramatically accelerated…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-11 Ethan Berger , Mohammad Bagheri , Hannu-Pekka Komsa

A well-known drawback of state-of-the-art machine-learning interatomic potentials is their poor ability to extrapolate beyond the training domain. For small-scale problems with tens to hundreds of atoms this can be solved by using active…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Max Hodapp , Alexander Shapeev

Recent developments in many-body potential energy representation via deep learning have brought new hopes to addressing the accuracy-versus-efficiency dilemma in molecular simulations. Here we describe DeePMD-kit, a package written in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Han Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Weinan E

Based on the parameters from published ab-inito theoretical and experimental studies, and combining Molecular Dynamics (MD) and kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations, a framework of multi-scale modeling is developed to investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-13 Daxi Guo , Ignacio Martin-Bragado , Chaohui He , Hang Zang , Peng Zhang

Silicon carbide (SiC) is an important technological material, but its high-temperature phase diagram has remained unclear due to conflicting experimental results about congruent versus incongruent melting. Here, we employ large-scale…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-30 Yu Xie , Menghang Wang , Senja Ramakers , Frans Spaepen , Boris Kozinsky

Path-integral molecular dynamics simulations in the isothermal-isobaric (NPT) ensemble have been carried out to study the dependence of the lattice parameter of 3C-SiC upon isotope mass. This computational method allows a quantitative and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez , Manuel Cardona

In (M Hodapp and A Shapeev 2020 Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 1 045005), we have proposed an algorithm that fully automatically trains machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) during large-scale simulations, and successfully applied it…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 Laura Mismetti , Max Hodapp

To reproduce the diamond structure of silicon, double lattice (DL) potential constructed from two interatomic potentials for face centered cubic (fcc) lattice, is proposed for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For the validity test of MD…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-12 Hui Zhang , Chongyang Wei , Zhongwu Liu , Xichun Zhong , Dongling Jiao , Wanqi Qiu , Hongya Yu

Large-scale atomistic computer simulations of materials rely on interatomic potentials providing computationally efficient predictions of energy and Newtonian forces. Traditional potentials have served in this capacity for over three…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-04 Y. Mishin