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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation techniques are widely used for various natural science applications. Increasingly, machine learning (ML) force field (FF) models begin to replace ab-initio simulations by predicting forces directly from…

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Machine-learning force fields (MLFFs) have emerged as a promising solution for speeding up ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, where accurate force predictions are critical but often computationally expensive. In this work, we…

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations enable modeling of materials and examination of microscopic details that are not accessible experimentally. The predictive capability of MD relies on the force field (FF) used to describe…

Nearly all standard force fields employ the 'sum-of-spheres' approximation, which models intermolecular interactions purely in terms of interatomic distances. Nonetheless, atoms in molecules can have significantly non-spherical shapes,…

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We develop a combined machine learning (ML) and quantum mechanics approach that enables data-efficient reconstruction of flexible molecular force fields from high-level ab initio calculations, through the consideration of fundamental…

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Molecular dynamics is a powerful simulation tool to explore material properties. Most of the realistic material systems are too large to be simulated with first-principles molecular dynamics. Classical molecular dynamics has lower…

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Understanding how structural flexibility affects the properties of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is crucial for the design of better MOFs for targeted applications. Flexible MOFs can be studied with molecular dynamics simulations, whose…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-13 Abhishek Sharma , Stefano Sanvito

We present GridFF, an efficient method for simulating molecules on rigid substrates, derived from techniques used in protein-ligand docking in biochemistry. By projecting molecule-substrate interactions onto precomputed spatial grids with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Indranil Mal , Milan Kočí , Paolo Nicolini , Prokop Hapala

Sampling molecular conformations from the Boltzmann distribution is essential for computational chemistry, but iterative diffusion methods are prohibitively slow. Drifting Models offer one-step generation, yet their equilibrium matches the…

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Cancer drug response varies widely across tumors due to multi-layer molecular heterogeneity, motivating computational decision support for precision oncology. Despite recent progress in deep CDR models, robust alignment between…

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Molecular simulations are essential tools in computational chemistry, enabling the prediction and understanding of molecular interactions and thermodynamic properties of biomolecules. However, traditional force fields face significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Junhan Chang , Duo Zhang , Yuqing Deng , Hongrui Lin , Zhirong Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Hang Zheng , Xinyan Wang

In this work, we introduce CHIPS-FF (Computational High-Performance Infrastructure for Predictive Simulation-based Force Fields), a universal, open-source benchmarking platform for machine learning force fields (MLFFs). This platform…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Daniel Wines , Kamal Choudhary

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an incredibly diverse group of highly porous hybrid materials, which are interesting for a wide range of possible applications. For a reliable description of many of their properties accurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-26 Sandro Wieser , Egbert Zojer

Reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is performed using a reactive force field (ReaxFF). To this end, we developed a new method to optimize the ReaxFF parameters based on a machine learning approach. This approach combines the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Hiroya Nakata , Shandan Bai

Biomolecular force fields have been traditionally derived based on a mixture of reference quantum chemistry data and experimental information obtained on small fragments. However, the possibility to run extensive molecular dynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thorben Fröhlking , Mattia Bernetti , Nicola Calonaci , Giovanni Bussi

Atomistic modeling of thin-film processes provides an avenue not only for discovering key chemical mechanisms of the processes but also to extract quantitative metrics on the events and reactions taking place at the gas-surface interface.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 S. Kondati Natarajan , J. Schneider , N. Pandey , J. Wellendorff , S. Smidstrup

Classical force fields (FF) based on machine learning (ML) methods show great potential for large scale simulations of materials. MLFFs have hitherto largely been designed and fitted for specific systems and are not usually transferable to…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-06 Kamal Choudhary , Brian DeCost , Lily Major , Keith Butler , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Francesca Tavazza

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) have revolutionized molecular simulations by providing quantum mechanical accuracy at the speed of molecular mechanical computations. However, a fundamental reliance of these models on fixed-cutoff…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Chu Wang , Lin Huang , Xinran Wei , Tao Qin , Arthur Jiang , Lixue Cheng , Jia Zhang

Force fields for molecular dynamics are usually developed manually, limiting their transferability and making systematic exploration of functional forms challenging. We developed a graph neural network that assigns all force field…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-18 Alexandre Blanco-González , Thea K Schulze , Evianne Rovers , Joe G Greener

System specific neural force fields (NFFs) have gained popularity in computational chemistry. One of the most popular datasets as a bencharmk to develop NFFs models is the MD17 dataset and its subsequent extension. These datasets comprise…

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