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While traditional trial-and-error methods for designing amorphous alloys are costly and inefficient, machine learning approaches based solely on composition lack critical atomic structural information. Machine learning interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-19 Xuhe Gong , Hengbo Zhao , Xiao Fu , Jingchen Lian , Qifan Yang , Ran Li , Ruijuan Xiao , Tao Zhang , Hong Li

Molten salts are promising candidates in numerous clean energy applications, where challenges in experimental methods limit knowledge of their safety-critical temperature-properties correlations. Herein, we developed and employed machine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Rajni Chahal , Luke D Gibson , Santanu Roy , Vyacheslav S Bryantsev

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

We present a highly accurate and transferable parameterization of water using the atomic cluster expansion (ACE). To efficiently sample liquid water, we propose a novel approach that involves sampling static calculations of various ice…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-21 Eslam Ibrahim , Yury Lysogorskiy , Ralf Drautz

The extent of ion pairing in solution is an important phenomenon to rationalise transport and thermodynamic properties of electrolytes. A fundamental measure of this pairing is the potential of mean force (PMF) between solvated ions. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Niamh O'Neill , Benjamin X. Shi , Kara Fong , Angelos Michaelides , Christoph Schran

Recent advances in machine-learning interatomic potentials have enabled the efficient modeling of complex atomistic systems with an accuracy that is comparable to that of conventional quantum mechanics based methods. At the same time, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-06 April M. Miksch , Tobias Morawietz , Johannes Kästner , Alexander Urban , Nongnuch Artrith

In this paper we investigate the performance of different machine learning potentials (MLPs) in predicting key thermodynamic properties of water using RPBE+D3. Specifically, we scrutinize kernel-based regression and high-dimensional neural…

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer a powerful avenue for simulations beyond length and timescales of ab initio methods. Their development for investigation of mechanical properties and fracture, however, is far from…

The prediction of the atomistic structure and properties of crystals including defects based on ab-initio accurate simulations is essential for unraveling the nano-scale mechanisms that control the micromechanical and macroscopic behaviour…

We address the degree to which machine learning can be used to accurately and transferably predict post-Hartree-Fock correlation energies. Refined strategies for feature design and selection are presented, and the molecular-orbital-based…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Lixue Cheng , Matthew Welborn , Anders S. Christensen , Thomas F. Miller

The central approximation made in classical molecular dynamics simulation of materials is the interatomic potential used to calculate the forces on the atoms. Great effort and ingenuity is required to construct viable functional forms and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mitchell A. Wood , Mary Alice Cusentino , Brian D. Wirth , Aidan P. Thompson

Interatomic potentials are key to uncovering microscopic structure-property relationships, essential for multiscale simulations and high-throughput experiments. For metallic glasses, their disordered atomic structure makes the development…

Ionic liquids (ILs) are an exciting class of electrolytes finding applications in many areas from energy storage to solvents, where they have been touted as ``designer solvents'' as they can be mixed to precisely tailor the physiochemical…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials are revolutionising atomistic materials simulations by providing accurate and scalable predictions within the scope covered by the training data. However, generation of an accurate and robust training…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Mariia Radova , Wojciech G. Stark , Connor S. Allen , Reinhard J. Maurer , Albert P. Bartók

The unique properties exhibited in immiscible metals, such as excellent strength, hardness, and radiation-damage tolerance, have stimulated the interest of many researchers. As a typical immiscible metal system, the Cu-W nano-multilayers…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-02 Jiahao Pan , Huiqun Cheng , Gaosheng Yan , Lei Zhang , Wenshan Yu , Shengping Shen

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) with broad chemical flexibility are important for atomistic simulations of compositionally complex materials such as high-entropy alloys. Here, we study two state-of-the-art MLIP frameworks,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Fei Shuang , Penghua Ying , Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Fengxian Liu , Zheyong Fan , Minqiang Jiang , Poulumi Dey

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

In recent years, efficient inter-atomic potentials approaching the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been developed using rigorous atomic descriptors satisfying strict invariances, for example, to translation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-18 Xiang-Guo Li , Chongze Hu , Chi Chen , Zhi Deng , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong

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

While molecular dynamics (MD) is a very useful computational method for atomistic simulations, modeling the interatomic interactions for reliable MD simulations of real materials has been a long-standing challenge. In 2007, Behler and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-11 Ling Tang , Weiyi Xia , Gayatri Viswanathan , Ernesto Soto , Kirill Kovnir , Cai-Zhuang Wang