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The internal dynamics of strongly interacting systems and that of biomolecules such as proteins display several important analogies, despite the huge difference in their characteristic energy and length scales. For example, in all such…

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The precise description of quantum nuclear fluctuations in atomistic modelling is possible by employing path integral techniques, which involve a considerable computational overhead due to the need of simulating multiple replicas of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Venkat Kapil , Jörg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

Accurately modeling gas-surface collision dynamics presents a great challenge for theory, especially in the low energy (or temperature) regime where quantum effects are important. Here, a path integral based non-equilibrium ring polymer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-06 Qinghua Liu , Liang Zhang , Yongle Li , Bin Jiang

In this paper we test two strategies to improving the accuracy of machine-learning potentials, namely adding more fitting parameters thus making use of large volumes of available quantum-mechanical data, and adding a charge-equilibration…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Ivan S. Novikov , Alexander V. Shapeev

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

Si and its oxides have been extensively explored in theoretical research due to their technological and industrial importance. Simultaneously describing interatomic interactions within both Si and SiO$_2$ without the use of \textit{ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Karim Zongo , Hao Sun , Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon , Laurent Karim Béland

We show how the path-integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics can be used to construct practical {\em ab initio} techniques for computing the chemical potential of molecules adsorbed on surfaces, with full inclusion of quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Alfe` , M. J. Gillan

Neural network potentials (NNPs) offer a fast and accurate alternative to ab-initio methods for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations but are hindered by the high cost of training data from high-fidelity Quantum Mechanics (QM) methods. Our…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Stephan Thaler , Cristian Gabellini , Nikhil Shenoy , Prudencio Tossou

Universal machine learned interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) embody a growing area of interest due to their transferability across the periodic table, displaying an error of about 0.6 kcal/mol against the Matbench Discovery test set. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Nicolas Wong , Julia H. Yang

Nanoparticles (NPs) formed in nonthermal plasmas (NTPs) can have unique properties and applications. However, modeling their growth in these environments presents significant challenges due to the non-equilibrium nature of NTPs, making them…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Matt Raymond , Paolo Elvati , Jacob C. Saldinger , Jonathan Lin , Xuetao Shi , Angela Violi

The past few years have seen the development of ``universal'' machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) capable of approximating the ground-state potential energy surface across a wide range of chemical structures and compositions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Sofiia Chorna , Davide Tisi , Cesare Malosso , Wei Bin How , Michele Ceriotti , Sanggyu Chong

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) provide near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy at reduced computational cost, but their reliability depends on representative training data and often deteriorates in transition-state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Ashique Lal , Rik S. Breebaart , Peter G. Bolhuis , Evert Jan Meijer

Abstract Interatomic potentials constitute the key component of large-scale atomistic simulations of materials. The recently proposed physically-informed neural network (PINN) method combines a high-dimensional regression implemented by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 G. P. Purja Pun , V. Yamakov , J. Hickman , E. H. Glaessgen , Y. Mishin

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) provide an effective approach for accurately and efficiently modeling atomic interactions, expanding the capabilities of atomistic simulations to complex systems. However, a priori feature…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Tina Torabi , Matthias Militzer , Michael P. Friedlander , Christoph Ortner

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

Machine learning methods have nowadays become easy-to-use tools for constructing high-dimensional interatomic potentials with ab initio accuracy. Although machine learned interatomic potentials are generally orders of magnitude faster than…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Yaolong Zhang , Ce Hu , Bin Jiang

Although machine-learning potentials have recently had substantial impact on molecular simulations, the construction of a robust training set can still become a limiting factor, especially due to the requirement of a reference ab initio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Krystof Brezina , Hubert Beck , Ondrej Marsalek

Geometry optimization is an important part of both computational materials and surface science because it is the path to finding ground state atomic structures and reaction pathways. These properties are used in the estimation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 Yilin Yang , Omar A. Jimenez-Negron , John R. Kitchin

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which is considered an important tool for studying physical and chemical processes at the atomic scale, requires accurate calculations of energies and forces. Although reliable energies and forces can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-06 Van-Quyen Nguyen , Viet-Cuong Nguyen , Tien-Cuong Nguyen , Tien-Lam Pham

The heavy-ion fusion reactions induced by neutron-rich nuclei are investigated with the improved quantum molecular dynamics (ImQMD) model. With a subtle consideration of the neutron skin thickness of nuclei and the symmetry potential, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Ning Wang , Li Ou , Yingxun Zhang , Zhuxia Li