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Advances in machine learning methods provide tools that have broad applicability in scientific research. These techniques are being applied across the diversity of nuclear physics research topics, leading to advances that will facilitate…

An overview of computational methods to describe high-dimensional potential energy surfaces suitable for atomistic simulations is given. Particular emphasis is put on accuracy, computability, transferability and extensibility of the methods…

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Atomistic simulations of matter, especially those that leverage first-principles (ab initio) electronic structure theory, provide a microscopic view of the world, underpinning much of our understanding of chemistry and materials science.…

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Calculations of nuclei are often carried out in finite model spaces. Thus, finite-size corrections enter, and it is necessary to extrapolate the computed observables to infinite model spaces. In this work, we employ extrapolation methods…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-25 W. G. Jiang , G. Hagen , T. Papenbrock

In recent years, many types of machine learning potentials (MLPs) have been introduced, which are able to represent high-dimensional potential-energy surfaces (PES) with close to first-principles accuracy. Most current MLPs rely on atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Marius Herbold , Jörg Behler

We optimize the matrix representation of the nucleon-pair approximation (NPA) of the nuclear shell model. The NPA is a widely adopted truncation approach of the nuclear shell model and proves to be effective in describing low-lying states…

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Machine learned interaction potentials (MLIPs) have become a critical component of large-scale, high-quality simulations for a range of chemical and biochemical systems. Yet, despite their in-distribution accuracy, molecular dynamics…

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Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials play a fundamental role in computational chemistry and materials science, enabling applications from molecular dynamics simulations to drug design and materials discovery. While recent approaches can…

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Language models generate text based on successively sampling the next word. A decoding procedure based on nucleus (top-$p$) sampling chooses from the smallest possible set of words whose cumulative probability exceeds the probability $p$.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Shauli Ravfogel , Yoav Goldberg , Jacob Goldberger

As the most important solvent, water has been at the center of interest since the advent of computer simulations. While early molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations had to make use of simple model potentials to describe the atomic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-01 Amir Omranpour , Pablo Montero De Hijes , Jörg Behler , Christoph Dellago

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

A consistent set of statistical-model input parameters, validated by analysis of various independent data, makes possible the assessment of an $\alpha$-particle optical model potential [Phys. Rev. C {\bf 90}, 044612 (2014)] also for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-04 Vlad Avrigeanu , Marilena Avrigeanu

We present in this article an optical potential for the $\pi$-nucleus interaction that can be used in various studies involving $\pi$-nucleus channels. Based on earlier treatments of the low energy $\pi$-nucleus optical potential, we have…

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We propose Object-oriented Neural Programming (OONP), a framework for semantically parsing documents in specific domains. Basically, OONP reads a document and parses it into a predesigned object-oriented data structure (referred to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Zhengdong Lu , Xianggen Liu , Haotian Cui , Yukun Yan , Daqi Zheng

Advances in machine learning (ML) techniques have enabled the development of interatomic potentials that promise both the accuracy of first principles methods and the low-cost, linear scaling, and parallel efficiency of empirical…

In this work we use microscopic Nucleon-Nucleus Optical Potentials (OP) to analyze elastic scattering data for the differential cross section of the $^{78}$Kr (p,p) $^{78}$Kr reaction, with the goal of extracting the matter radius and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-27 Matteo Vorabbi , Paolo Finelli , Carlotta Giusti

Nucleus-nucleus optical potentials are constructed from an energy density functional approach first outlined by Brueckner et al. The interaction term of the energy density functional comes from the complex nucleon self-energy computed in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-07 T. R. Whitehead

Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for developing machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) in predictive atomistic simulations. Conformal prediction (CP) is a statistical framework that constructs prediction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Cheuk Hin Ho , Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

Combinatorial and guided screening of materials space with density-functional theory and related approaches has provided a wealth of hypothetical inorganic materials, which are increasingly tabulated in open databases. The OPTIMADE API is a…