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Simulating interactions between non-spherical colloidal particles is computationally challenging due to the complex dependency of forces and energies on their geometry. We introduce and evaluate both descriptor-based and end-to-end models…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-22 B. Rusen Argun , Antonia Statt

We present design and implementation of a novel neural network potential (NNP) and its combination with an electrostatic embedding scheme, commonly used within the context of hybrid quantum-mechanical/molecular-mechanical (QM/MM)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Felix Pultar , Moritz Thuerlemann , Igor Gordiy , Eva Doloszeski , Sereina Riniker

Neural network potentials (NNPs) enable large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of systems containing >10,000 atoms with the accuracy comparable to ab initio methods and play a crucial role in material studies. Although NNPs are…

Nickel (Ni) is a magnetic transition metal with two allotropic phases, stable face-centered cubic (FCC) and metastable hexagonal close-packed (HCP), widely used in structural applications. Magnetism affects many mechanical and defect…

The ability to accurately model interatomic interactions in large-scale systems is fundamental to understanding a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena, from drug-protein binding to the behavior of next-generation materials. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-26 Taskin Mehereen , Sourav Saha , Intesar Jawad Jaigirdar , Chanwook Park

We develop a high-dimensional neural network potential (NNP) to describe the structural and energetic properties of borophene deposited on silver. This NNP has the accuracy of DFT calculations while achieving computational speedups of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Pierre Mignon , Abdul-Rahman Allouche , Neil Richard Innis , Colin Bousige

Artificial neural networks (NNs) are one of the most frequently used machine learning approaches to construct interatomic potentials and enable efficient large-scale atomistic simulations with almost ab initio accuracy. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Viktor Zaverkin , David Holzmüller , Ingo Steinwart , Johannes Kästner

We present a general-purpose machine learning Gaussian approximation potential (GAP) for iron that is applicable to all bulk crystal structures found experimentally under diverse thermodynamic conditions, as well as surfaces and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-23 Richard Jana , Miguel A. Caro

While machine learning (ML) interatomic potentials (IPs) are able to achieve accuracies nearing the level of noise inherent in the first-principles data to which they are trained, it remains to be shown if their increased complexities are…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-05 Joshua A. Vita , Dallas R. Trinkle

This work presents Neural Equivariant Interatomic Potentials (NequIP), an E(3)-equivariant neural network approach for learning interatomic potentials from ab-initio calculations for molecular dynamics simulations. While most contemporary…

Large-scale atomistic computer simulations of materials heavily rely on interatomic potentials predicting the potential energy and Newtonian forces on atoms. Traditional interatomic potentials are based on physical intuition but contain few…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 G. P. Purja Pun , R. Batra , R. Ramprasad , Y. Mishin

Binary metal clusters are of high interest for applications in heterogeneous catalysis and have received much attention in recent years. To gain insights into their structure and composition at the atomic scale, computer simulations can…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Jan Weinreich , Anton Römer , Martín Leandro Paleico , Jörg Behler

Large-scale simulations of plastic deformation and phase transformations in alloys require reliable classical interatomic potentials. We construct an embedded-atom method potential for niobium as the first step in alloy potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-27 Michael R. Fellinger , Hyoungki Park , John W. Wilkins

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…

While molecular dynamics (MD) is a very useful computational method for atomistic simulations, modeling the interatomic interactions for reliable MD simulations of real materials has been a long-standing challenge. In 2007, Behler and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Ling Tang , Weiyi Xia , Gayatri Viswanathan , Ernesto Soto , Kirill Kovnir , Cai-Zhuang Wang

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

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and have been applied across various domains in physical science. However, their performance often relies on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Taoyong Cui , Zhongyao Wang , Dongzhan Zhou , Yuqiang Li , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang

The prediction of the atomistic structure and properties of crystals including defects based on ab-initio accurate simulations is essential for unraveling the nano-scale mechanisms that control the micromechanical and macroscopic behaviour…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) with broad chemical flexibility are important for atomistic simulations of compositionally complex materials such as high-entropy alloys. Here, we study two state-of-the-art MLIP frameworks,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Fei Shuang , Penghua Ying , Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Fengxian Liu , Zheyong Fan , Minqiang Jiang , Poulumi Dey

We present an automated benchmarking suite for face-centered-cubic (FCC) nickel that evaluates 47 quantitative metrics spanning both standard tests (equation of state, elastic constants, surface energies and phonons) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-22 Matthew Thoms , Hao Sun , Laurent Karim Béland