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Aluminum oxide (alumina, Al$_2$O$_3$) exists in various structures and has broad industrial applications. While the crystal structure of $\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$ is well-established, those of transitional aluminas remain highly debated. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-11 Lei Zhang , Wenhao Luo , Renxi Liu , Mohan Chen , Zhongbo Yan , Kun Cao

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) trained on large, chemically diverse datasets are revolutionizing computational chemistry, enabling molecular dynamics simulations of battery electrolytes with near-DFT accuracy over 10,000…

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have advanced rapidly, with many top models relying on strong physics-based inductive biases. However, as models scale to larger systems like biomolecules and electrolytes, they struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Eric Qu , Brandon M. Wood , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Zachary W. Ulissi

The promise of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) has led to an abundance of public quantum mechanical (QM) training datasets. The quality of an MLIP is directly limited by the accuracy of the energies and atomic forces in the…

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) and their widespread applications in chemistry, physics, and material science. By fitting discrete ab initio data faithfully to continuous and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Junfan Xia , Yaolong Zhang , Bin Jiang

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

The sustainable production of many bulk chemicals relies on heterogeneous catalysis. The rational design or improvement of the required catalysts critically depends on insights into the underlying mechanisms at the atomic scale. In recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Amir Omranpour , Jan Elsner , K. Nikolas Lausch , Jörg Behler

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) and their two-dimensional counterparts (2D-HEAs) have recently attracted attention due to their tunable properties and catalytic potential, yet their chemical complexity makes direct density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Chun Zhou , Hannu-Pekka Komsa

With the growing availability of machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) models for materials simulations, there is an increasing demand for robust, automated, and chemically insightful benchmarking methodologies. In response, we here…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Natascia L. Fragapane , Volker L. Deringer

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

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) deliver near ab initio accuracy in energy and force calculations at low computational cost, making them invaluable for materials modeling. Although uMLIPs are pre-trained on vast ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Pjotrs Žguns , Inga Pudza , Alexei Kuzmin

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) are reshaping atomistic simulation as foundation models, delivering near \textit{ab initio} accuracy at a fraction of the cost. Yet the lack of reliable, general uncertainty…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Wei Gao , Poulumi Dey , Marcel H. F. Sluiter , Fei Shuang

We investigate the melting behavior of calcium oxide (CaO) under extreme conditions, a problem that remains poorly constrained due to experimental limitations despite its relevance for geophysical and technological applications. We develop…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Francesca Menescardi , Stefano de Gironcoli

Crystal generative models mainly learn what stable crystals look like, with little explicit supervision for what makes them stable. We reveal a substantial representation gap between state-of-the-art crystal generative models and pretrained…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-12 Chengqian Zhang , Yucheng Jin , Duo Zhang , Tiejun Li , Han Wang

Universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) have become powerful tools for accelerating computational materials discovery by replacing expensive first-principles calculations in crystal structure prediction (CSP). However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-04 Yuqi An , Zhenbin Wang

Vibrational properties of solids are key to determining stability, response and functionality. However, they are challenging to computationally predict at Ab-Initio accuracy, even for elemental systems. Ab-Initio methods for modeling atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Mgcini Keith Phuthi , Yang Huang , Michael Widom , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer near-ab initio accuracy with the efficiency of classical force fields, making them attractive for modeling electrolytes. Collecting a diverse training set is essential for their accuracy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Olga Chalykh , Mikhail Polovinkin , Dmitry Korogod , Nikita Rybin , Alexander Shapeev

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) of molecular crystals plays a central role in applications, such as pharmaceuticals and organic electronics. CSP is challenging and computationally expensive due to the need to explore a large search space…

Free energy profiles serve as a fundamental bridge between microscopic atomic fluctuations and macroscopic thermodynamic observables. Estimating the free energy profile along a reaction coordinate, referred to as the potential of mean force…

We have developed a machine learning-based interatomic potential (MLIP) for the quaternary MoNbTaW (R4) and quinary MoNbTaTiW (R5) high entropy alloys (HEAs). MLIPs enabled accurate high throughput calculations of elastic and mechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-25 Anup Pandey , Jonathan Gigax , Reeju Pokharel