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Describing the interactions of water molecules is one of the most common, yet critical, tasks in molecular dynamics simulations. Because of its unique properties, hundreds of attempts have been made to construct an ideal interaction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Bálint Soczó , Ildikó Pethes

Ultrafast, time-resolved spectroscopies enable the direct observation of non-equilibrium processes in condensed-phase systems and have revealed key insights into energy transport, hydrogen-bond dynamics, and vibrational coupling. While ab…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Kit Joll , Philipp Schienbein

Multiscale and inhomogeneous molecular systems are challenging topics in the field of molecular simulation. In particular, modeling biological systems in the context of multiscale simulations and exploring material properties are driving a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Horacio V. Guzman , Christoph Junghans , Kurt Kremer , Torsten Stuehn

Liquid metals are central to energy-storage and nuclear technologies, yet quantitative knowledge of their thermophysical properties remains limited. While atomistic simulations offer a route to computing liquid properties directly from…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Alex Tai , Jason Ogbebor , Rodrigo Freitas

Using concepts from perturbation and local molecular field theories of liquids we divide the potential of the SPC/E water model into short and long ranged parts. The short ranged parts define a minimal reference network model that captures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Richard C. Remsing , Jocelyn M. Rodgers , John D. Weeks

Using artificial neural-network machine learning (ANN-ML) to generate interatomic potentials has been demonstrated to be a promising approach to address the long-standing challenge of accuracy versus efficiency in molecular dynamics (MD)…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-16 Chao Zhang , Ling Tang , Yang Sun , Kai-Ming Ho , Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Cai-Zhuang Wang

Precise prediction of phase diagrams in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is challenging due to the simultaneous need for long time scales, large length scales and accurate interatomic potentials. We show that thermodynamic integration…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-06 Tanooj Shah , Kamron Fazel , Jie Lian , Liping Huang , Yunfeng Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

Machine-learned interatomic potentials hold the promise to enable the modeling of highly concentrated liquids over meaningful timescales, far from reach for current ab initio electronic structure methods. Here we evaluate the performances…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Brugnoli , Mathieu Salanne , A. Marco Saitta , Alessandra Serva , Arthur France-Lanord

Reactive force fields for molecular dynamics have enabled a wide range of studies in numerous material classes. These force fields are computationally inexpensive as compared to electronic structure calculations and allow for simulations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Brenden W. Hamilton , Pilsun Yoo , Michael N. Sakano , Md Mahbubul Islam , Alejandro Strachan

We study the applicability of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) approach to simulate one-dimensional non-relativistic fluid dynamics. Numerical fluid dynamical calculations are used to generate training data-sets corresponding to a broad range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Kirill Taradiy , Kai Zhou , Jan Steinheimer , Roman V. Poberezhnyuk , Volodymyr Vovchenko , Horst Stoecker

The accuracy of the training data limits the accuracy of bulk properties from machine-learned potentials. For example, hybrid functionals or wave-function-based quantum chemical methods are readily available for cluster data but effectively…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Viktor Zaverkin , David Holzmüller , Robin Schuldt , Johannes Kästner

The vibrational motion of molecules in dissipative environments, such as solvation and protein molecules, is composed of contributions from both intermolecular and intramolecular modes. The existence of these collective modes introduces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-16 Seiji Ueno , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Machine learned chemical potentials have shown great promise as alternatives to conventional computational chemistry methods to represent the potential energy of a given atomic or molecular system as a function of its geometry. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Christian Devereux , Yoona Yang , Carles Martí , Judit Zádor , Michael S. Eldred , Habib N. Najm

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

In this paper we formulate a nonlocal density functional theory of inhomogeneous water. We model a water molecule as a couple of oppositely charged sites. The negatively charged sites interact with each other through the Lennard-Jones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Yu. A. Budkov , A. L. Kolesnikov

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the evaporation of particle-laden droplets on a heated surface. The droplets are composed of a Lennard-Jones fluid containing rigid particles which are spherical sections of an atomic lattice,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Weikang Chen , Joel Koplik , Ilona Kretzschmar

A multi-scale framework was recently proposed for more realistic molecular dynamics simulations in continuum solvent models by coupling a molecular mechanics treatment of solute with a fluid mechanics treatment of solvent, where we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Li Xiao , Ray Luo

Predicting the spatial configuration of gas molecules in nanopores of shale formations is crucial for fluid flow forecasting and hydrocarbon reserves estimation. The key challenge in these tight formations is that the majority of the pore…

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing classical force fields constitute the cornerstone of contemporary atomistic modeling in chemistry, biology, and materials science. However, the predictive power of these simulations is only as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stefan Chmiela , Huziel E. Sauceda , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko

The predictive simulation of molecular liquids requires models that are not only accurate, but computationally efficient enough to handle the large systems and long time scales required for reliable prediction of macroscopic properties. We…