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Machine Learning techniques can be used to represent high-dimensional potential energy surfaces for reactive chemical systems. Two such methods are based on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space representation or on deep neural networks. They…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Oliver T. Unke , Markus Meuwly

In studying solidification process by simulations on the atomic scale, the modeling of crystal nucleation or amorphisation requires the construction of interatomic interactions that are able to reproduce the properties of both the solid and…

Neural network potentials trained on quantum-mechanical data can calculate molecular interactions with relatively high speed and accuracy. However, neural network potentials might exhibit instabilities, nonphysical behavior, or lack…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Kavindri Ranasinghe , Adam L. Baskerville , Geoffrey P. F. Wood , Gerhard Koenig

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials have emerged as efficient tools for materials simulation, yet their reliability for elastic property prediction remains unclear. Here, we present a systematic benchmark of four uMLIPs --…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Pengfei Gao , Haidi Wang

Abstract Interatomic potentials constitute the key component of large-scale atomistic simulations of materials. The recently proposed physically-informed neural network (PINN) method combines a high-dimensional regression implemented by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 G. P. Purja Pun , V. Yamakov , J. Hickman , E. H. Glaessgen , Y. Mishin

There has been a veritable explosion of methods and software to perform machine-learned regression on datasets of electronic energies and forces to develop high-dimensional machine learned potential energy surfaces (ML-PESs). A major, but…

The core of molecular dynamics simulation fundamentally lies in the interatomic potential. Traditional empirical potentials lack accuracy, while first-principles methods are computationally prohibitive. Machine learning interatomic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shuyu Bi , Zhede Zhao , Qiangchao Sun , Tao Hu , Xionggang Lu , Hongwei Cheng

We present a general-purpose machine learning (ML) interatomic potential for carbon and hydrogen which is capable of simulating various materials and molecules composed of these elements. This ML interatomic potential is trained using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Rina Ibragimova , Mikhail S. Kuklin , Tigany Zarrouk , Miguel A. Caro

Energy functions for pure and heterogenous systems are one of the backbones for molecular simulation of condensed phase systems. With the advent of machine learned potential energy surfaces (ML-PESs) a new era has started. Statistical…

Machine learning potentials have revolutionised the field of atomistic simulations in recent years and are becoming a mainstay in the toolbox of computational scientists. This paper aims to provide an overview and introduction into machine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Fabian L. Thiemann , Niamh O'Neill , Venkat Kapil , Angelos Michaelides , Christoph Schran

Molecular dynamics simulations provide a versatile framework to study interfacial heat transport, but their accuracy remains limited by the accuracy of available interatomic potentials. In the past, researchers have adopted the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-11 Spencer Wyant , Andrew Rohskopf , Asegun Henry

Oxide-water interfaces govern a wide range of physical and chemical processes fundamental to many fields like catalysis, geochemistry, corrosion, electrochemistry, and sensor technology. Near solid oxide surfaces, water behaves differently…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jan Elsner , K Nikolas Lausch , Jörg Behler

Machine learned interatomic interaction potentials have enabled efficient and accurate molecular simulations of closed systems. However, external fields, which can greatly change the chemical structure and/or reactivity, have been seldom…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Yaolong Zhang , Bin Jiang

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…

The development of machine learning interatomic potentials has immensely contributed to the accuracy of simulations of molecules and crystals. However, creating interatomic potentials for magnetic systems that account for both magnetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Hongyu Yu , Yang Zhong , Liangliang Hong , Changsong Xu , Wei Ren , Xingao Gong , Hongjun Xiang

An artificial neural network (ANN) is investigated as a tool for estimating rate coefficients for the collisional excitation of molecules. The performance of such a tool can be evaluated by testing it on a dataset of collisionally-induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 David A. Neufeld

Simulating water from first principles remains a significant computational challenge due to the slow dynamics of the underlying system. Although machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) can accelerate these simulations, they often fail…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Tobias Hilpert , Georg Kresse

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

Message passing neural networks have become a method of choice for learning on graphs, in particular the prediction of chemical properties and the acceleration of molecular dynamics studies. While they readily scale to large training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kristof T. Schütt , Oliver T. Unke , Michael Gastegger

A computationally efficient and accurate machine-learned (ML) interatomic potential is developed for Ti$_{n+1}$C$_n$ MXenes. With a diverse set of structures computed with density functional theory, the trained ML potential demonstrates…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-05 Jesper Byggmästar