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The key problem of statistical physics standing over one hundred years is how to exactly calculate the partition function (or free energy) of many-body interaction systems, which severely hinders application of the theory for realistic…

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Reconstructing force fields (FFs) from atomistic simulation data is a challenge since accurate data can be highly expensive. Here, machine learning (ML) models can help to be data economic as they can be successfully constrained using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-27 Niklas Frederik Schmitz , Klaus-Robert Müller , Stefan Chmiela

Force-matched water models provide a practical route from first-principles reference data to long classical and path-integral molecular simulations. Previous flexible four-site potentials in the spirit of q-TIP4P/F showed that fitting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jan Kessler , Thomas Spura , Kristof Karhan , Thomas D. Kühne

Machine learning force fields have emerged as promising tools for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, potentially offering quantum-mechanical accuracy with the efficiency of classical MD. Inspired by foundational large language models,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Denan Li , Jiyuan Yang , Xiangkai Chen , Lintao Yu , Shi Liu

The acceleration of material property calculations while maintaining ab initio accuracy (1 meV/atom) is one of the major challenges in computational physics. In this paper, we introduce a Python package enhancing the computation of (finite…

We introduce a new class of machine learning interatomic potentials - fast General Two- and Three-body Potential (GTTP), which is as fast as conventional empirical potentials and require computational time that remains constant with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Sergey Pozdnyakov , Artem R. Oganov , Efim Mazhnik , Arslan Mazitov , Ivan Kruglov

A new pairwise hybrid machine-learning/molecular mechanics (ML/MM) potential is introduced that is conceived for application to large, heterogeneous condensed-phase systems. The PhysNet ML method describes monomers and short-range dimer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Kham Lek Chaton , Eric D. Boittier , Mike Devereux , Markus Meuwly

Simulations of colloidal suspensions consisting of mesoscopic particles and smaller species such as ions or depletants are computationally challenging as different length and time scales are involved. Here, we introduce a machine learning…

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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an incredibly diverse group of highly porous hybrid materials, which are interesting for a wide range of possible applications. For a reliable description of many of their properties accurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-26 Sandro Wieser , Egbert Zojer

The atomic force microscope (AFM) is a versatile, high-resolution tool used to characterize the topography and material properties of a large variety of specimens at nano-scale. The interaction of the micro-cantilever tip with the specimen…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-05 David Busch , Qingze Zou , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

We have developed models of metallic alloy glass forming ability based on newly computationally accessible features obtained from molecular dynamics simulations. In this work we showed that it is possible to increase the predictive value of…

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a key tool for characterising nanoscale structures, with functionalised tips now offering detailed images of the atomic structure. In parallel, AFM simulations using the particle probe model provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Jie Huang , Niko Oinonen , Fabio Priante , Filippo Federici Canova , Lauri Kurki , Chen Xu , Adam S. Foster

The potential of mean force (PMF) between two nano crystals (NCs) represents an effective interaction potential that can be used to study the assembly of NCs to various superstructures. For a given temperature, the effective interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Alexander Lange , Fabian Danecker , Gernot Bauer , Nadezda Gribova , Joachim Gross

A key challenge for soft materials design and coarse-graining simulations is determining interaction potentials between components that give rise to desired condensed-phase structures. In theory, the Ornstein-Zernike equation provides an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-22 Rhys E. A. Goodall , Alpha A. Lee

The atomic-scale response of inhomogeneous fluids at interfaces and surrounding solute particles plays a critical role in governing chemical, electrochemical and biological processes at such interfaces. Classical molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-28 Kamron Fazel , Nima Karimitari , Tanooj Shah , Christopher Sutton , Ravishankar Sundararaman

To address the computational challenges of ab initio molecular dynamics and the accuracy limitations of empirical force fields, the introduction of machine learning force fields has proven effective in various systems including metals and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-18 Junbao Hu , Liyang Zhou , Jian Jiang

We investigate the problem of how to obtain the force field between atoms of an experimentally determined structure. We show how this problem can be efficiently solved, even at finite temperature, where the position of the atoms differs…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. M. Deutsch , Tanya Kurosky

By adopting a perspective informed by contemporary liquid state theory, we consider how to train an artificial neural network potential to describe inhomogeneous, disordered systems. We find that neural network potentials based on local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Samuel P. Niblett , Mirza Galib , David T. Limmer

Understanding the atomic-scale structure and dynamics of amorphous oxide surfaces is essential for interpreting their chemical reactivity, mechanical stability, and interfacial behavior, yet direct experimental characterization remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Zheng Yu , Jiayan Xu , Abhirup Patra , Sharan Shetty , Detlef Hohl , Roberto Car

Quantum mechanics based ab-initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulation schemes offer an accurate and direct means to monitor the time-evolution of materials. Nevertheless, the expensive and repetitive energy and force computations required in…

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