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We discuss the usefulness of Born-Oppenheimer potential surfaces for nuclear dynamics for molecules strongly coupled to metal surfaces. A simple model demonstrating the construction of such surface for a molecular junction is discussed.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-07 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan , Mark A. Ratner

The microscopic nucleus-nucleus optical potential is constructed basing on two patterns for real and imaginary parts, each calculated in the framework of microscopic models and multiplied by two normalizing factors, the free parameters,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Hanna , K. V. Lukyanov , V. K. Lukyanov , B. Slowinski , E. V. Zemlyanaya

Double--folded optical $\alpha$--nucleus potentials can be used to calculate elastic scattering cross sections in a wide mass-- and energy region. Because of the systematic behavior of the potential parameters we are able to obtain reliable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 P. Mohr , H. Abele , U. Atzrott , G. Staudt , R. Bieber , K. Grün , H. Oberhummer , T. Rauscher , E. Somorjai

Molecular modeling is an important topic in drug discovery. Decades of research have led to the development of high quality scalable molecular force fields. In this paper, we show that neural networks can be used to train a universal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-20 Ke Liu , Zekun Ni , Zhenyu Zhou , Suocheng Tan , Xun Zou , Haoming Xing , Xiangyan Sun , Qi Han , Junqiu Wu , Jie Fan

We develop for the first time a microscopic global nucleon-nucleus optical potential with quantified uncertainties suitable for analyzing nuclear reaction experiments at next-generation rare-isotope beam facilities. Within the improved…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 T. R. Whitehead , Y. Lim , J. W. Holt

High-precision predictions of nuclear properties are a central objective of ab initio nuclear structure theory. However, state-of-the-art many-body methods rely on truncated model spaces to render the nuclear many-body problem tractable,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Marco Knöll

Neural network potentials (NNPs) enable large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of systems containing >10,000 atoms with the accuracy comparable to ab initio methods and play a crucial role in material studies. Although NNPs are…

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations with applications in many fields from chemistry to materials science. While most current MLPs are based…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Tsz Wai Ko , Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker , Jörg Behler

We review the field of Optical Quantum Computation, considering the various implementations that have been proposed and the experimental progress that has been made toward realizing them. We examine both linear and nonlinear approaches and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-07 T. C. Ralph , G. J. Pryde

We extend our recently developed interatomic potentials for UO_{2} to the mixed oxide fuel system (U,Pu,Np)O_{2}. We do so by fitting against an extensive database of ab initio results as well as to experimental measurements. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-05 Pratyush Tiwary , Axel van de Walle , Byoungseon Jeon , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) and force fields (i.e. interaction laws for atoms and molecules) are typically trained on limited data-sets that cover only a very small section of the full space of possible input structures.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

This chapter reviews the fundamental optical properties and applications of pho-tonic molecules (PMs) - photonic structures formed by electromagnetic coupling of two or more optical microcavities (photonic atoms). Controllable interaction…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Svetlana V. Boriskina

Predicting nuclear masses is a longstanding challenge. One path forward is machine learning (ML) which trains on experimental data, but can suffer large errors when extrapolating toward neutron-rich species. In nature, such masses shape…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Mengke Li , Matthew Mumpower , Nicole Vassh , William Samuel Porter , Rebecca Surman

We introduce Orb, a family of universal interatomic potentials for atomistic modelling of materials. Orb models are 3-6 times faster than existing universal potentials, stable under simulation for a range of out of distribution materials…

We investigate the role of high momentum components of optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering and its incidence on their nonlocal structure in coordinate space. The study covers closed-shell nuclei with mass number in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 H. F. Arellano , G. Blanchon

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

Machine learning is becoming a new paradigm for scientific research in various research fields due to its exciting and powerful capability of modeling tools used for big-data processing task. In this mini-review, we first briefly introduce…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Wanbing He , Qingfeng Li , Yugang Ma , Zhongming Niu , Junchen Pei , Yingxun Zhang

Machine learning potentials offer a revolutionary, unifying framework for molecular simulations across scales, from quantum chemistry to coarse-grained models. Here, I explore their potential to dramatically improve accuracy and scalability…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Gianni De Fabritiis

Interatomic potentials are essential for driving molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, directly impacting the reliability of predictions regarding the physical and chemical properties of materials. In recent years, machine-learned potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Penghua Ying , Cheng Qian , Rui Zhao , Yanzhou Wang , Feng Ding , Shunda Chen , Zheyong Fan

As with many parts of the natural sciences, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing the modeling of molecular crystals. However, challenges remain for the accurate and efficient calculation of sublimation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Flaviano Della Pia , Benjamin X. Shi , Venkat Kapil , Andrea Zen , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides