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The subject of this paper is the technology (the "how") of constructing machine-learning interatomic potentials, rather than science (the "what" and "why") of atomistic simulations using machine-learning potentials. Namely, we illustrate…

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Free energy profiles serve as a fundamental bridge between microscopic atomic fluctuations and macroscopic thermodynamic observables. Estimating the free energy profile along a reaction coordinate, referred to as the potential of mean force…

Machine learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized complex materials design by enabling rapid exploration of material configurational spaces via crystal structure prediction with ab initio accuracy. However, critical challenges…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have revolutionized molecular and materials modeling, but existing benchmarks suffer from data leakage, limited transferability, and an over-reliance on error-based metrics tied to specific…

Transition-state searches are central to understanding reaction mechanisms, but the high computational cost of density-functional theory (DFT) limits their application in high-throughput catalyst and materials discovery. Machine-learned…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Jonah Marks , Jonathon Vandezande , Joseph Gomes

To fill the gap between accurate (and expensive) ab initio calculations and efficient atomistic simulations based on empirical interatomic potentials, a new class of descriptions of atomic interactions has emerged and been widely applied;…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-28 Tongqi Wen , Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , Weinan E , David J. Srolovitz

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used atomic simulations, but generating databases of atomic configurations used in fitting these models is a laborious process, requiring significant computational and human…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-26 Connor Allen , Albert P. Bartók

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) and force fields (i.e. interaction laws for atoms and molecules) are typically trained on limited data-sets that cover only a very small section of the full space of possible input structures.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have substantially advanced atomistic simulations in materials science and chemistry by balancing accuracy and computational efficiency. While leading MLIPs rely on representing atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 Mingjian Wen , Wei-Fan Huang , Jin Dai , Santosh Adhikari

Universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) enable reactive molecular simulations with near-DFT accuracy, yet applying them efficiently to large, realistic condensed-phase systems remains computationally demanding. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Yu Miyazaki , Atsuhiro Tomita , Akihide Hayashi , So Takamoto , Mizuki Takemoto , Hodaka Mori

Machine-learning-based interatomic potentials enable accurate materials simulations on extended time- and lengthscales. ML potentials based on the Atomic Cluster Expansion (ACE) framework have recently shown promising performance for this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Daniel F. Thomas du Toit , Yuxing Zhou , Volker L. Deringer

Accounting for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) can significantly alter material properties at finite temperatures. Atomic modeling using the path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method can fully account for such effects, but requires…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-21 A. A. Solovykh , N. E. Rybin , I. S. Novikov , A. V. Shapeev

Titanium MXenes are two-dimensional inorganic structures composed of titanium and carbon or nitrogen elements, with distinctive electronic, thermal and mechanical properties. Despite the extensive experimental investigation, there is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Luis F. V. Thomazini , Alexandre F. Fonseca

Investigating Li$^+$ transport within the amorphous lithium phosphorous oxynitride (LiPON) framework, especially across a Li||LiPON interface, has proven challenging due to its amorphous nature and varying stoichiometry, necessitating large…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-03 Aqshat Seth , Rutvij Pankaj Kulkarni , Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam

Machine learning has become ubiquitous in materials modelling and now routinely enables large-scale atomistic simulations with quantum-mechanical accuracy. However, developing machine-learned interatomic potentials requires high-quality…

Machine-learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations are a promising alternative to conventional classical potentials. Current approaches rely on descriptors of the local atomic environment with dimensions that increase…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-05 Nongnuch Artrith , Alexander Urban , Gerbrand Ceder

Total energies of crystal structures can be calculated to high precision using quantum-based density functional theory (DFT) methods, but the calculations can be time consuming and scale badly with system size. Cluster expansions of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-31 Qin Gao , Sanxi Yao , Jeff Schneider , Michael Widom

Machine-learned interatomic potentials can offer near first-principles accuracy but are computationally expensive, limiting their application to large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. Inspired by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Fraser Birks , Matthew Nutter , Thomas D Swinburne , James R Kermode

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) evaluate potential energy surfaces orders of magnitude faster while maintaining accuracy comparable to first-principles calculations, and universal MLIPs that cover most of the periodic table…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Naoya Kuroda , Kenji Ishihara , Tomoya Shiota , Wataru Mizukami

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) show promise in accurately describing the physical properties of materials, but there is a need for a higher throughput method of validation. Here, we demonstrate using that MLIPs and molecular…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-07 Dennis S. Kim , Michael Xu , James M. LeBeau