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The development of resilient and lightweight Aluminum alloys is central to advancing structural materials for energy-efficient engineering applications. To address this challenge, in this study, we explore the elastic properties of Al-Mg-Zr…

Atomistic simulations of electrochemical interfaces remain challenging due to the long time scales required to adequately sample the structure of the electric double layer. The emergence of efficient, short-range machine learning…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) provide a computationally efficient alternative to quantum mechanical simulations for predicting material properties. Message-passing graph neural networks, commonly used in these MLIPs, rely…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Moin Uddin Maruf , Sungmin Kim , Zeeshan Ahmad

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

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have greatly extended the reach of atomic-scale simulations, offering the accuracy of first-principles calculations at a fraction of the cost. Leveraging large quantum mechanical databases and…

The number of published Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) has increased significantly in recent years. These new data-driven potential energy approximations often lack the physics-based foundations that inform many…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-02 Kimia Ghaffari , Salil Bavdekar , Douglas E. Spearot , Ghatu Subhash

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer a powerful avenue for simulations beyond length and timescales of ab initio methods. Their development for investigation of mechanical properties and fracture, however, is far from…

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become powerful tools to extend molecular simulations beyond the limits of quantum methods, offering near-quantum accuracy at much lower computational cost. Yet, developing reliable MLIPs…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Adam Lahouari , Jutta Rogal , Mark E. Tuckerman

Ionic liquids (ILs) are an exciting class of electrolytes finding applications in many areas from energy storage to solvents, where they have been touted as ``designer solvents'' as they can be mixed to precisely tailor the physiochemical…

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…

Examination of thermal expansion of two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials is a challenging theoretical task with either ab-initio or classical molecular dynamics simulations. In this regard, while ab-initio molecular dynamics (AIMD)…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-22 Bohayra Mortazavi , Ali Rajabpour , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk , Alexander V. Shapeev

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials have emerged as efficient tools for materials simulation, yet their reliability for elastic property prediction remains unclear. Here, we present a systematic benchmark of four uMLIPs --…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Pengfei Gao , Haidi Wang

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used to model diverse atomistic phenomena, yet parameterizing them to accurately capture solid-state phase transformations remains difficult. We present error metrics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Lorenzo Piersante , Anirudh Raju Natarajan

A linear regression-based machine learned interatomic potential (MLIP) was developed for the silicon-carbon system. The MLIP was predominantly trained on structures discovered through a genetic algorithm, encompassing the entire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Michael MacIsaac , Salil Bavdekar , Douglas Spearot , Ghatu Subhash

Accurate structural relaxation is critical for advanced materials design. Traditional approaches built on physics-derived first-principles calculations are computationally expensive, motivating the creation of machine-learning interatomic…

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…

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) are widely applied as an efficient alternative way to represent potential energy surfaces (PES) in many chemical simulations. The MLPs are often evaluated with the root-mean-square errors on the test set…

Prevailing machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) uncertainty-quantification methods rely on ensembles of independently trained backbones. These methods scale unfavorably with foundation-scale MLIPs, and their member-disagreement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shams Mehdi , Ilkwon Cho , Olexandr Isayev

The need to use a short time step is a key limit on the speed of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Simulations governed by classical potentials are often accelerated by using a multiple-time-step (MTS) integrator that evaluates certain…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Xiang Fu , Albert Musaelian , Anders Johansson , Tommi Jaakkola , Boris Kozinsky

Foundational machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are being developed at a rapid pace, promising closer and closer approximation to ab initio accuracy. This unlocks the possibility to simulate much larger length and time scales.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Luuk H. E. Kempen , Raffaele Cheula , Mie Andersen