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Quantum mechanical methods like Density Functional Theory (DFT) are used with great success alongside efficient search algorithms for studying kinetics of reactive systems. However, DFT is prohibitively expensive for large scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Mathias Schreiner , Arghya Bhowmik , Tejs Vegge , Peter Bjørn Jørgensen , Ole Winther

Large-scale atomistic simulations rely on interatomic potentials providing an efficient representation of atomic energies and forces. Modern machine-learning (ML) potentials provide the most precise representation compared to electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 David Immel , Ralf Drautz , Godehard Sutmann

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations have an enormous prospective impact on materials modeling, offering orders of magnitude speedup over density functional theory (DFT) calculations without appreciably sacrificing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-20 Dylan Bayerl , Christopher M. Andolina , Shyam Dwaraknath , Wissam A. Saidi

While machine-learned interatomic potentials offer near-quantum-mechanical accuracy for atomistic simulations, many are material-specific or computationally intensive, limiting their broader use. Here we introduce NEP89, a foundation model…

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

A Moment Tensor Potential (MTP) has been developed for the Cu-Ag binary alloy and its accuracy, transferability, and thermodynamic fidelity evaluated. The model was trained on a diverse dataset encompassing solid, liquid, and interfacial…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Mashroor S. Nitol , Marco J. Echeverría Iriarte , Doyl E. Dickel , Saryu J. Fensin

Modern Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) learn a mapping from position to volumetric density leveraging proposal network samplers. In contrast to the coarse-to-fine sampling approach with two NeRFs, this offers significant potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lukas Radl , Andreas Kurz , Michael Steiner , Markus Steinberger

Moment Tensor Potentials (MTPs) are machine-learning interatomic potentials whose basis functions are typically selected using a level-based scheme that is data-agnostic. We introduce a post-training, cost-aware pruning strategy that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Zijian Meng , Karim Zongo , Matthew Thoms , Ryan Eric Grant , Laurent Karim Béland

Medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) such as CoCrFeNi and CoCrNi are promising structural materials owing to their outstanding mechanical and thermal properties, which arise from complex chemical disorder and atomic-scale interactions. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Mashroor S. Nitol , Artur Tamm , Subah Mubassira , Shuozhi Xu , Saryu J. Fensin

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

Simulating collision cascades and radiation damage poses a long-standing challenge for existing interatomic potentials, both in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Machine-learning based interatomic potentials have shown sufficiently high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Jiahui Liu , Jesper Byggmastar , Zheyong Fan , Ping Qian , Yanjing Su

A recently proposed class of machine-learning interatomic potentials --- Moment tensor potentials (MTPs) --- is investigated in this work. MTPs are able to actively select configurations and parametrize the potential on-the-fly. It is shown…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 I. I. Novoselov , A. V. Yanilkin , A. V. Shapeev , E. V. Podryabinkin

Molecular dynamics simulations have been extensively used to predict thermal properties, but simulating different phases with similar precision using a unified force field is often difficult, due to the lack of accurate and transferrable…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-12 Ruiyang Li , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

Neural Network Potentials (NNPs) have attracted significant attention as a method for accelerating density functional theory (DFT) calculations. However, conventional NNP models typically do not incorporate spin degrees of freedom, limiting…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-10 Koki Ueno , Satoru Ohuchi , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Kei Amii , Kensuke Wakasugi

This work presents Neural Equivariant Interatomic Potentials (NequIP), an E(3)-equivariant neural network approach for learning interatomic potentials from ab-initio calculations for molecular dynamics simulations. While most contemporary…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (ML-IAPs) enable quantum-accurate, classical molecular dynamics simulations of large systems, beyond reach of density functional theory (DFT). Yet, their efficiency and ability to predict systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Gábor Csányi , Erik van der Giessen , Francesco Maresca

We present design and implementation of a novel neural network potential (NNP) and its combination with an electrostatic embedding scheme, commonly used within the context of hybrid quantum-mechanical/molecular-mechanical (QM/MM)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Felix Pultar , Moritz Thuerlemann , Igor Gordiy , Eva Doloszeski , Sereina Riniker

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have massively changed the field of atomistic modeling. They enable the accuracy of density functional theory in large-scale simulations while being nearly as fast as classical interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Niklas Leimeroth , Linus C. Erhard , Karsten Albe , Jochen Rohrer

The molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) is a key quantity for describing and predicting intermolecular and ion-molecule interactions. Here, we assess the ability of machine-learning (ML) models to infer the MEP, based on the equivariant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Kadri Muuga , Lisanne Knijff , Chao Zhang

Machine-learned potentials (MLPs) trained on ab initio data combine the computational efficiency of classical interatomic potentials with the accuracy and generality of the first-principles method used in the creation of the respective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Leonid Kahle , Benoit Minisini , Tai Bui , Jeremy T. First , Corneliu Buda , Thomas Goldman , Erich Wimmer