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In studying solidification process by simulations on the atomic scale, the modeling of crystal nucleation or amorphisation requires the construction of interatomic interactions that are able to reproduce the properties of both the solid and…

Aqueous lithium chloride solutions up to very high concentrations were investigated in classical molecular dynamics simulations. Various force fields based on the 12-6 Lennard-Jones model, parametrized for non-polarizable water solvent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-31 Ildikó Pethes

(Abbreviated) In this paper we report on the development of a multiscale method for simulating complex liquid-liquid systems such as water in contact with oil containing asphaltenes. We consider simulations where water drops covered with…

Neural network potentials trained on quantum-mechanical data can calculate molecular interactions with relatively high speed and accuracy. However, neural network potentials might exhibit instabilities, nonphysical behavior, or lack…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Kavindri Ranasinghe , Adam L. Baskerville , Geoffrey P. F. Wood , Gerhard Koenig

Machine learning techniques are essential tools to compute efficient, yet accurate, force fields for atomistic simulations. This approach has recently been extended to incorporate quantum computational methods, making use of variational…

Simulating liquid water to an accuracy that matches its wealth of available experimental data requires both precise electronic structure methods and reliable sampling of nuclear (quantum) motion. This is challenging because applying the…

Contact freezing is a mode of atmospheric ice nucleation in which a collision between a dry ice nucleating particle (INP) and a water droplet results in considerably faster heterogeneous nucleation. The molecular mechanism of such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-29 Sarwar Hussain , Amir Haji-Akbari

In molecular simulations, neural network force fields aim at achieving \emph{ab initio} accuracy with reduced computational cost. This work introduces enhancements to the Deep Potential network architecture, integrating a message-passing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Ruiqi Gao , Yifan Li , Roberto Car

Although electrostatics can be incorporated into machine-learned interatomic potentials, existing approaches are computationally very demanding, limiting large-scale, long-time simulations of electrostatics-driven phenomena such as…

Simulating water from first principles remains a significant computational challenge due to the slow dynamics of the underlying system. Although machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) can accelerate these simulations, they often fail…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Tobias Hilpert , Georg Kresse

We demonstrate that the machine learning of density functionals allows one to determine simultaneously the equilibrium chemical potential across simulation datasets of inhomogeneous classical fluids. Minimization of a loss function based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-11 Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

Based on an analysis of the short range chemical environment of each atom in a system, standard machine learning based approaches to the construction of interatomic potentials aim at determining directly the central quantity which is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 S. Alireza Ghasemi , Albert Hofstetter , Santanu Saha , Stefan Goedecker

We investigate the structural properties of liquid water at near ambient conditions using first-principles molecular dynamics simulations based on a semilocal density functional augmented with nonlocal van der Waals interactions. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-01 Giacomo Miceli , Stefano de Gironcoli , Alfredo Pasquarello

Water's unique hydrogen-bonding network and anomalous properties pose significant challenges for accurately modeling its structural, thermodynamic, and transport behavior across varied conditions. Although machine-learned potentials have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Ke Xu , Ting Liang , Nan Xu , Penghua Ying , Shunda Chen , Ning Wei , Jianbin Xu , Zheyong Fan

Co$_3$O$_4$ is an important catalyst for the oxidation of organic molecules in the liquid phase. Still, understanding the atomistic details of Co$_3$O$_4$-water interfaces under operando conditions remains extremely challenging. While ab…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Amir Omranpour , Jörg Behler

Whilst the primary bottleneck to a number of computational workflows was not so long ago limited by processing power, the rise of machine learning technologies has resulted in a paradigm shift which places increasing value on issues related…

We propose a novel active learning scheme for automatically sampling a minimum number of uncorrelated configurations for fitting the Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP). Our active learning scheme consists of an unsupervised machine…

The contribution of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) to the properties of various hydrogen-bound systems, including biomolecules, is increasingly recognized. Despite the development of many acceleration techniques, the computational overhead…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Iryna Zaporozhets , Félix Musil , Venkat Kapil , Cecilia Clementi

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

Computational studies of liquid water and its phase transition into vapor have traditionally been performed using classical water models. Here we utilize the Deep Potential methodology -- a machine learning approach -- to study this…