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Liquid metals are central to energy-storage and nuclear technologies, yet quantitative knowledge of their thermophysical properties remains limited. While atomistic simulations offer a route to computing liquid properties directly from…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Alex Tai , Jason Ogbebor , Rodrigo Freitas

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and has been applied to various fields of physical science. However, the performance and transferability of MLIPs are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Taoyong Cui , Chenyu Tang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Lei Bai , Yuhan Dong , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang

Tobermorite and Calcium Silicate Hydrate (C-S-H) systems are indispensable cement materials but still lack a satisfactory interatomic potential with both high accuracy and high computational efficiency for better understanding their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiao Xu , Shijie Wang , Haifeng Qin , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zheyong Fan , Zhuhua Zhang , Hang Yin

A neuroevolution potential (NEP) for the ternary $\alpha$-Fe--C--H system was developed based on a database generated from spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) calculations, achieving empirical potential efficiency with DFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Fan-Shun Meng , Shuhei Shinzato , Zhiqiang Zhao , Jun-Ping Du , Lei Gao , Zheyong Fan , Shigenobu Ogata

This article proposes a novel high-performance computing approach for the prediction of the temperature field in powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing processes. In contrast to many existing approaches to part-scale simulations,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Sebastian D. Proell , Peter Munch , Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall , Christoph Meier

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

Predictive modeling of the phonon/thermal transport properties of materials is vital to rational design for a diverse spectrum of engineering applications. Classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations serve as a tool to simulate the time…

Graphics processing units have been extensively used to accelerate classical molecular dynamics simulations. However, there is much less progress on the acceleration of force evaluations for many-body potentials compared to pairwise ones.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Wei Chen , Ville Vierimaa , Ari Harju

Aluminum oxide (alumina, Al$_2$O$_3$) exists in various structures and has broad industrial applications. While the crystal structure of $\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$ is well-established, those of transitional aluminas remain highly debated. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-11 Lei Zhang , Wenhao Luo , Renxi Liu , Mohan Chen , Zhongbo Yan , Kun Cao

The development and implementation of increasingly accurate methods for electronic structure calculations mean that, for many atomistic simulation problems, treating light nuclei as classical particles is now one of the most serious…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-12 Venkat Kapil , Joost VandeVondele , Michele Ceriotti

The process of numerical thermalization in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations has been studied extensively. It is analogous to Coulomb collisions in real plasmas, causing particle velocity distributions (VDFs) to evolve towards a Maxwellian…

Nuclear quantum effects and non-Born--Oppenheimer effects play a vital role in many chemical and biological processes, motivating the incorporation of such effects into dynamical simulations. In real-time nuclear--electronic orbital…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Nicholas J. Boyer , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Machine learned interatomic potentials, particularly equivariant message-passing (MP) models, have demonstrated high fidelity in representing first-principles data, revolutionizing computational studies in materials science, biophysics, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Yaolong Zhang , Hua Guo

The machine learning potential (MLP) based molecular dynamics (MD) method was applied for constructing the pressure-temperature phase diagram in the barium titanate (BaTiO3) crystals. The nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) on the phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Kansei Kanayama , Kazuaki Toyoura

We demonstrate an efficient and accurate, general-purpose first-principles blueprint for calculating anharmonic vibrational free energy and predicting structural phase transition temperatures of solids. Thermodynamic integration is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-14 Junsoo Park , Zhigang Wu , John W. Lawson

Electrolyte solutions play critical role in a vast range of important applications, yet an accurate and scalable method of predicting their properties without fitting to experiment has remained out of reach, despite over a century of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Junji Zhang , Joshua Pagotto , Tim Gould , Timothy T. Duignan

Machine Learning (ML) potentials such as Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in mapping structure to properties across diverse systems. Here, we introduce a GAP model for low-dimensional Ni…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Suvo Banik , Partha Sarathi Dutta , Sukriti Manna , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

Achieving optimal solubility of active substances in polymeric carriers is of fundamental importance for a number of industrial applications, including targeted drug delivery within the growing field of nanomedicine. However, its…

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing classical force fields constitute the cornerstone of contemporary atomistic modeling in chemistry, biology, and materials science. However, the predictive power of these simulations is only as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stefan Chmiela , Huziel E. Sauceda , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Mesoscopic simulations of hydrocarbon flow in source shales are challenging, in part due to the heterogeneous shale pores with sizes ranging from a few nanometers to a few micrometers. Additionally, the sub-continuum fluid-fluid and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Yidong Xia , Ansel Blumers , Zhen Li , Lixiang Luo , Yu-Hang Tang , Joshua Kane , Hai Huang , Matthew Andrew , Milind Deo , Jan Goral