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Accurate prediction of surface energies and stabilities is essential for materials design, yet first-principles calculations remain computationally expensive and most existing interatomic potentials are trained only on bulk systems. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-01 Jaekyun Hwang , Taehun Lee , Yonghyuk Lee , Su-Hyun Yoo

We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-22 Giulio Benedini , Antoine Loew , Matti Hellstrom , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marques

Accurate interatomic potentials are in high demand for large-scale atomistic simulations of materials that are prohibitively expensive by density functional theory (DFT) calculation. In this study, we apply machine learning potentials in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Takayuki Nishiyama , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

The development of modern ab initio methods has rapidly increased our understanding of physics, chemistry and materials science. Unfortunately, intensive ab initio calculations are intractable for large and complex systems. On the other…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-08 Lin Hu , Rui Su , Bing Huang , Feng Liu

Neural Networks (NNs) are effective models for refining the accuracy of molecular dynamics, opening up new fields of application. Typically trained bottom-up, atomistic NN potential models can reach first-principle accuracy, while…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Paul Fuchs , Stephan Thaler , Sebastien Röcken , Julija Zavadlav

The advent of machine learning in materials science opens the way for exciting and ambitious simulations of large systems and long time scales with the accuracy of ab-initio calculations. Recently, several pre-trained universal machine…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-28 Luis Casillas-Trujillo , Abhijith S. Parackal , Rickard Armiento , Björn Alling

A machine learned interatomic potential for AlN was developed using the ultra-fast force field (UF3) methodology. A strong agreement with density functional theory calculations in predicting key structural and mechanical properties,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicholas Taormina , Emir Bilgili , Jason Gibson , Richard Hennig , Simon Phillpot , Youping Chen

Machine-learning models of atomic-scale interactions achieve the accuracy of the quantum mechanical calculations on which they are trained, but at a dramatically lower computational cost. Their predictions can be made trustworthy by…

A Gaussian approximation machine learning interatomic potential for platinum is presented. It has been trained on DFT data computed for bulk, surfaces and nanostructured platinum, in particular nanoparticles. Across the range of tested…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-06 Jan Kloppenburg , Livia B. Pártay , Hannes Jónsson , Miguel A. Caro

In computational materials science, a common means for predicting macroscopic (e.g., mechanical) properties of an alloy is to define a model using combinations of descriptors that depend on some material properties (elastic constants,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-17 Ivan Novikov , Olga Kovalyova , Alexander Shapeev , Max Hodapp

Supported nanoparticle catalysts are widely used in the chemical industry. Computational modeling of supported nanoparticles based on density functional theory (DFT) often involves structural searches of stable local minimum energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Jiayan Xu , Abhirup Patra , Amar Deep Pathak , Sharan Shetty , Detlef Hohl , Roberto Car

Tin (Sn) plays a crucial role in studying the dynamic mechanical responses of ductile metals under shock loading. Atomistic simulations serves to unveil the nano-scale mechanisms for critical behaviors of dynamic responses. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Yixin Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Wanghui Li , Mohan Chen , Han Wang

Machine-learning methods are nowadays of common use in the field of material science. For example, they can aid in optimizing the physicochemical properties of new materials, or help in the characterization of highly complex chemical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-29 Maciej J. Karcz , Luca Messina , Eiji Kawasaki , Serenah Rajaonson , Didier Bathellier , Emeric Bourasseau

First-principles based modeling on phonon dynamics and transport using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equation has proven powerful in predicting thermal conductivity of crystalline materials, but it remains unfeasible for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Xin Qian , Shenyou Peng , Xiaobo Li , Yujie Wei , Ronggui Yang

Developing machine learning-based interatomic potentials from ab-initio electronic structure methods remains a challenging task for computational chemistry and materials science. This work studies the capability of transfer learning, in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Viktor Zaverkin , David Holzmüller , Luca Bonfirraro , Johannes Kästner

Developing fast and accurate methods to discover intermetallic compounds is relevant for alloy design. While density-functional-theory (DFT)-based methods have accelerated design of binary and ternary alloys by providing rapid access to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Zhaohan Zhang , Mu Li , Katharine Flores , Rohan Mishra

Large-scale simulations of plastic deformation and phase transformations in alloys require reliable classical interatomic potentials. We construct an embedded-atom method potential for niobium as the first step in alloy potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-27 Michael R. Fellinger , Hyoungki Park , John W. Wilkins

In studying solidification process by simulations on the atomic scale, the modeling of crystal nucleation or amorphisation requires the construction of interatomic interactions that are able to reproduce the properties of both the solid and…

Nickel (Ni) is a magnetic transition metal with two allotropic phases, stable face-centered cubic (FCC) and metastable hexagonal close-packed (HCP), widely used in structural applications. Magnetism affects many mechanical and defect…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) based on a large dataset obtained by density functional theory (DFT) calculation have been developed recently. This study gives both conceptual and practical bases for the high accuracy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Akira Takahashi , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka