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We present the GPU version of DeePMD-kit, which, upon training a deep neural network model using ab initio data, can drive extremely large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with ab initio accuracy. Our tests show that the GPU version…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Denghui Lu , Han Wang , Mohan Chen , Jiduan Liu , Lin Lin , Roberto Car , Weinan E , Weile Jia , Linfeng Zhang

Conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulation approaches, such as $\textit{ab initio}$ MD (AIMD) and empirical force field MD (EFFMD), face significant trade-offs between physical accuracy and computational efficiency. This work presents…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-12 Hongyu Yan , Yong Wei , Minghan Chen , Hanning Chen

Accounting for electrons and nuclei simultaneously is a powerful capability of ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). However, AIMD is often unable to accurately reproduce properties of systems such as water due to inaccuracies in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Andrew D. White , Chris Knight , Glen M. Hocky , Gregory A. Voth

Using conservation of energy - a fundamental property of closed classical and quantum mechanical systems - we develop an efficient gradient-domain machine learning (GDML) approach to construct accurate molecular force fields using a…

Computer simulation methods, such as Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics, are very powerful computational techniques that provide detailed and essentially exact information on classical many-body problems. With the advent of ab-initio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Thomas D. Kühne

Accelerated molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are implemented to model the sliding process of AFM experiments at speeds close to those found in experiment. In this study the hyperdynamics method, originally devised to extend MD time…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Woo Kyun Kim , Michael L. Falk

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) have brought potentially game-changing opportunities in accelerating reactive flow simulations. In this study, we introduce an open-source computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Runze Mao , Yingrui Wang , Min Zhang , Han Li , Jiayang Xu , Xinyu Dong , Yan Zhang , Zhi X. Chen

Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are crucial for accurately capturing nuclear quantum effects in materials. However, their computational intensity and reliance on multiple software packages often limit their applicability…

There exists an increasing interest for using immersed boundary methods (IBMs) (Peskin 2000) to model moving objects in computational fluid dynamics. Indeed, this approach is particularly efficient, because the fluid mesh does not require…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 Joel Beny , Jonas Latt

Molecular dynamics (MD) provides insights into atomic-scale processes by integrating over time the equations that describe the motion of atoms under the action of interatomic forces. Machine learning models have substantially accelerated MD…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Filippo Bigi , Sanggyu Chong , Agustinus Kristiadi , Michele Ceriotti

We present a multiscale simulation approach for hydroxide transport in aqueous solutions of potassium hydroxide, combining ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations with force field ensemble averaging and lattice Monte Carlo…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Jonas Hänseroth , Daniel Sebastiani , Jakob Scholl , Karl Skadell , Christian Dreßler

We describe a highly optimized implementation of MPI domain decomposition in a GPU-enabled, general-purpose molecular dynamics code, HOOMD-blue (Anderson and Glotzer, arXiv:1308.5587). Our approach is inspired by a traditional CPU-based…

A multilevel approach to sample the potential energy surface in a path integral formalism is proposed. The purpose is to reduce the required number of ab initio evaluations of energy and forces in ab initio path integral molecular dynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-22 Hua Y. Geng

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…

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are essential tools in computational chemistry and drug discovery, offering crucial insights into dynamic molecular behavior. However, their utility is significantly limited by substantial computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Bin Feng , Jiying Zhang , Xinni Zhang , Zijing Liu , Yu Li

The two main thrusts of computational science are more accurate predictions and faster calculations; to this end, the zeitgeist in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is pursuing machine learned and data driven interatomic models, e.g.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Saaketh Desai , Samuel Temple Reeve , James F. Belak

We present a new method which combines Car-Parrinello and Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics in order to accelerate density functional theory based ab-initio simulations. Depending on the system a gain in efficiency of one to two orders of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas D. Kühne , Matthias Krack , Fawzi R. Mohamed , Michele Parrinello

An approximate approach to quantum vibrational dynamics, "Brownian Chain Molecular Dynamics (BCMD)", is proposed to alleviate the chain resonance and curvature problems in the imaginary time-based path integral (PI) simulation. Here the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Motoyuki Shiga

We present a hybrid continuum-atomistic scheme which combines molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with on-the-fly machine learning techniques for the accurate and efficient prediction of multiscale fluidic systems. By using a Gaussian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-16 David Stephenson , James R Kermode , Duncan A Lockerby

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) with hybrid density functionals and plane wave basis is computationally expensive due to the high computational cost of exact exchange energy evaluation. Recently, we proposed a strategy to combine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Sagarmoy Mandal , Vaishali Thakkur , Nisanth N. Nair