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Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) offer a powerful combination of abilities for accelerating theoretical spectroscopy calculations utilising both ensemble sampling and trajectory post-processing for inclusion of vibronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Jacob Eller , Nicholas D. M. Hine

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used atomic simulations, but generating databases of atomic configurations used in fitting these models is a laborious process, requiring significant computational and human…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-26 Connor Allen , Albert P. Bartók

The core of molecular dynamics simulation fundamentally lies in the interatomic potential. Traditional empirical potentials lack accuracy, while first-principles methods are computationally prohibitive. Machine learning interatomic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shuyu Bi , Zhede Zhao , Qiangchao Sun , Tao Hu , Xionggang Lu , Hongwei Cheng

Accurate molecular property predictions require 3D geometries, which are typically obtained using expensive methods such as density functional theory (DFT). Here, we attempt to obtain molecular geometries by relying solely on machine…

Liquid metals are central to energy-storage and nuclear technologies, yet quantitative knowledge of their thermophysical properties remains limited. While atomistic simulations offer a route to computing liquid properties directly from…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Alex Tai , Jason Ogbebor , Rodrigo Freitas

Efficient materials discovery requires reducing costly first-principles calculations for training machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs). We develop an active learning (AL) framework that iteratively selects informative structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mohammed Azeez Khan , Aaron D'Souza , Vijay Choyal

All-atom dynamics simulations are an indispensable quantitative tool in physics, chemistry, and materials science, but large systems and long simulation times remain challenging due to the trade-off between computational efficiency and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Stephen R. Xie , Matthias Rupp , Richard G. Hennig

First-principles atomistic simulations are essential for understanding complex material phenomena but are fundamentally limited by their computational cost. While Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have drastically improved…

Universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (U-MLIPs) have demonstrated effectiveness across diverse atomistic systems but often require fine-tuning for task-specific accuracy. We investigate the fine-tuning of two MACE-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Xiaoqing Liu , Kehan Zeng , Yangshuai Wang , Teng Zhao

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) promise to significantly advance atomistic simulations by delivering quantum-level accuracy for large molecular systems at a fraction of the computational cost of traditional electronic…

We designed a procedure to train a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) at benchmark-quality quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) accuracy. To avoid the complexities of high-quality atomic force determination with the stochastic QMC methods,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Adam Hložný , Ján Brndiar , Ye Luo , Ivan Štich

Machine learning (ML) enables the development of interatomic potentials that promise the accuracy of first principles methods while retaining the low cost and parallel efficiency of empirical potentials. While ML potentials traditionally…

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

In many cases, the predictions of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) can be interpreted as a sum of body-ordered contributions, which is explicit when the model is directly built on neighbor density correlation descriptors, and…

Machine Learning Inter-atomic Potentials (MLIPs) have become a common tool in use by computational chemists due to their combination of accuracy and speed. Yet, it is still not clear how well these tools behave at or near transitions states…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Aaron Philip , Guoqing Zhou , Benjamin Nebgen

Molecular dynamics simulations have emerged as a potent tool for investigating the physical properties and kinetic behaviors of materials at the atomic scale, particularly in extreme conditions. Ab initio accuracy is now achievable with…

This paper introduces an active learning approach to the fitting of machine learning interatomic potentials. Our approach is based on the D-optimality criterion for selecting atomic configurations on which the potential is fitted. It is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Evgeny V. Podryabinkin , Alexander V. Shapeev

The use of machine learning (ML) in chemical physics has enabled the construction of interatomic potentials having the accuracy of ab initio methods and a computational cost comparable to that of classical force fields. Training an ML model…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Zeyuan Tang , Stefan T. Bromley , Bjørk Hammer

A Spectral Neighbor Analysis (SNAP) machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) has been developed for simulations of carbon at extreme pressures (up to 5 TPa) and temperatures (up to 20,000 K). This was achieved using a large database of…

Accounting for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) can significantly alter material properties at finite temperatures. Atomic modeling using the path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method can fully account for such effects, but requires…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-21 A. A. Solovykh , N. E. Rybin , I. S. Novikov , A. V. Shapeev