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Interatomic potentials are key to uncovering microscopic structure-property relationships, essential for multiscale simulations and high-throughput experiments. For metallic glasses, their disordered atomic structure makes the development…

Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have surged in popularity due to their promise of expanding the spatiotemporal scales possible for simulating molecules with high fidelity. The accuracy of any MLIP is dependent on the data…

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A linear regression-based machine learned interatomic potential (MLIP) was developed for the silicon-carbon system. The MLIP was predominantly trained on structures discovered through a genetic algorithm, encompassing the entire…

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The rapid development of pretrained Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) that cover a wide range of molecular species has made it challenging to select the best model for a given application. We benchmark 15 pretrained MLIPs,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Peter Eastman , Evan Pretti , Thomas E. Markland

Predicting the structural response of advanced multiphase alloys and understanding the underlying microscopic mechanisms that are responsible for it are two critically important roles modeling plays in alloy development. An alloys…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field, the most commonly employed architectures were based on short-ranged atomic energy contributions,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 William J. Baldwin , Ilyes Batatia , Martin Vondrák , Johannes T. Margraf , Gábor Csányi

Extended defects such as dislocation networks and general grain boundaries are ubiquitous in metals, and accurately modeling these extensive defects is crucial for understanding their deformation mechanisms. Existing machine learning…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-10 Fei Shuang , Kai Liu , Yucheng Ji , Wei Gao , Luca Laurenti , Poulumi Dey

This paper reviews the current state-of-the-art in the simulation of the mechanical behavior of polycrystalline materials by means of computational homogenization. The key ingredients of this modelling strategy are presented in detail…

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Machine learned interaction potentials (MLIPs) have become a critical component of large-scale, high-quality simulations for a range of chemical and biochemical systems. Yet, despite their in-distribution accuracy, molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Eric C. -Y. Yuan , Teresa Head-Gordon

The prediction of energetically stable crystal structures formed by a given chemical composition is a central problem in solid-state physics. In principle, the crystalline state of assembled atoms can be determined by optimizing the energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Minoru Kusaba , Chang Liu , Ryo Yoshida

Molecular dynamics (MD) employing machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) serve as an efficient, urgently needed complement to ab initio molecular dynamics (aiMD). By training these potentials on data generated from ab initio…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-19 Kisung Kang , Thomas A. R. Purcell , Christian Carbogno , Matthias Scheffler

The chalcogenide perovskite material BaZrS$_{3}$ is of growing interest for emerging thin-film photovoltaics. Here we show how machine-learning-driven modelling can be used to describe the material's amorphous precursor as well as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Laura-Bianca Paşca , Yuanbin Liu , Andy S. Anker , Ludmilla Steier , Volker L. Deringer

Deformation of crystalline materials is an interesting example of complex system behaviour. Small samples typically exhibit a stochastic-like, irregular response to externally applied stresses, manifested as significant sample-to-sample…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Marcin Mińkowski , Lasse Laurson

The sustainable production of many bulk chemicals relies on heterogeneous catalysis. The rational design or improvement of the required catalysts critically depends on insights into the underlying mechanisms at the atomic scale. In recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Amir Omranpour , Jan Elsner , K. Nikolas Lausch , Jörg Behler

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and has been applied to various fields of physical science. However, the performance and transferability of MLIPs are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Taoyong Cui , Chenyu Tang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Lei Bai , Yuhan Dong , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) developed from extensive datasets constructed from density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become increasingly appealing for many researchers. This paper presents a framework of polynomial-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-29 Atsuto Seko

We present an active learning framework for efficiently generating training data for machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs). The method combines local entropy-driven molecular dynamics with global dataset-aware filtering: a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Meiyan Wang , Rishi Rao , Li Zhu

In this research, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations are combined with mesoscopic phase-field computational methods in order to investigate phase-transformation in polycrystalline Aluminum microstructure. In fact, microstructural…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-03 Mehrdad Yousefi

Solidification governs the microstructure and, therefore, the mechanical response of metal components, yet the atomistic details of nucleation and defect formation are often difficult to determine experimentally. Molecular dynamics can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Ian Störmer , Julija Zavadlav

First-principles atomistic simulations are essential for understanding complex material phenomena but are fundamentally limited by their computational cost. While Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have drastically improved…