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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have achieved remarkable accuracy on standard benchmarks, yet their ability to reproduce molecular kinetics -- critical for reaction rate calculations -- remains largely unexplored. We…

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…

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Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) with broad chemical flexibility are important for atomistic simulations of compositionally complex materials such as high-entropy alloys. Here, we study two state-of-the-art MLIP frameworks,…

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Delocalization error prevents density functional theory (DFT) from reaching its full potential, causing problems like systematically underestimated band gaps and misaligned energy levels at interfaces. We introduce lrLOSC to correct…

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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…

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Fast, and accurate prediction of ionic migration barriers ($E_m$) is crucial for designing next-generation battery materials that combine high energy density with facile ion transport. Given the computational costs associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-01 Achinthya Krishna Bheemaguli , Penghao Xiao , Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam

Machine-learned potentials (MLPs) have become a popular approach of modelling interatomic interactions in atomistic simulations, but to keep the computational cost under control, a relatively short cutoff must be imposed, which put serious…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-21 Penghua Ying , Zheyong Fan

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…

Universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) offer a promising approach to performing atomistic simulations at near-DFT accuracy with greatly reduced computational cost. Here, we present a new high-temperature benchmarking…

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A computationally efficient and accurate machine-learned (ML) interatomic potential is developed for Ti$_{n+1}$C$_n$ MXenes. With a diverse set of structures computed with density functional theory, the trained ML potential demonstrates…

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DFT is a valuable tool for calculating adsorption energies toward designing materials for hydrogen storage. However, dispersion forces being absent from the theory, it remains unclear how the consideration of van der Waals (vdW)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Genki I. Prayogo , Hyeondeok Shin , Anouar Benali , Ryo Maezono , Kenta Hongo

Central to interatomic potential efficiency is the radial envelope function that enables linear scaling with computational cost by defining a local neighborhood of atoms. This has enabled MLIPs to revolutionize materials science over the…

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Many materials properties depend on higher-order derivatives of the potential energy surface, yet machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) trained with a standard loss on energy, force, and stress errors can exhibit error in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Teddy Koker , Abhijeet Gangan , Mit Kotak , Jaime Marian , Tess Smidt

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and have been applied across various domains in physical science. However, their performance often relies on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Taoyong Cui , Zhongyao Wang , Dongzhan Zhou , Yuqiang Li , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang

Cross-functional fine-tuning of machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) is often treated as a relabeling problem, where configurations generated at one density-functional level are relabeled using a higher-fidelity target…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-26 Yuki Nagai , Bo Thomsen , Motoyuki Shiga

Improving the predictive capability of molecular properties in ab initio simulations is essential for advanced material discovery. Despite recent progress making use of machine learning, utilizing deep neural networks to improve quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

The relaxation of atomic positions to their optimal structural arrangement is crucial for understanding the emergence of new physical behavior in long scale superstructures in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials. The amount of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-22 Samuel J. Magorrian , Anas Siddiqui , Nicholas D. M. Hine

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

Molecular dynamics (MD) employing machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) serve as an efficient, urgently needed complement to ab initio molecular dynamics (aiMD). By training these potentials on data generated from ab initio…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-19 Kisung Kang , Thomas A. R. Purcell , Christian Carbogno , Matthias Scheffler