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According to density functional theory, any chemical property can be inferred from the electron density, making it the most informative attribute of an atomic structure. In this work, we demonstrate the use of established physical methods…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-12 Ethan M. Sunshine , Muhammed Shuaibi , Zachary W. Ulissi , John R. Kitchin

Density functional theory is the standard theory for computing the electronic structure of materials, which is based on a functional that maps the electron density to the energy. However, a rigorous form of the functional is not known and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-02 Ryo Nagai , Ryosuke Akashi , Osamu Sugino

Recently Dijkman et al. (arXiv:2403.15007) proposed training classical neural density functionals via bulk pair-correlation matching. We show their method to be an efficient regularizer for neural functionals based on local learning of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-16 Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

We use density-matrix renormalization group, applied to a one-dimensional model of continuum Hamiltonians, to accurately solve chains of hydrogen atoms of various separations and numbers of atoms. We train and test a machine-learned…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Li Li , Thomas E. Baker , Steven R. White , Kieron Burke

We use supervised machine learning together with the concepts of classical density functional theory to investigate the effects of interparticle attraction on the pair structure, thermodynamics, bulk liquid-gas coexistence, and associated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-29 Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Robert Evans

Two types of approaches to modeling molecular systems have demonstrated high practical efficiency. Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely used quantum chemical method, is a physical approach predicting energies and electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Anton V. Sinitskiy , Vijay S. Pande

In principle, machine learning (ML) can be used to obtain any electronic property of a many-body system from its electron density within density functional theory. However, some physical quantities are highly sensitive to small variations…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-19 L. Arnstein , J. Wetherell , R. Lawrence , P. J. Hasnip , M. J. P. Hodgson

We develop a novel data-driven approach to the inverse problem of classical statistical mechanics: given experimental data on the collective motion of a classical many-body system, how does one characterise the free energy landscape of that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-01 Peter Yatsyshin , Serafim Kalliadasis , Andrew B. Duncan

Classical density-functional theory provides an efficient alternative to molecular dynamics simulations for understanding the equilibrium properties of inhomogeneous fluids. However, application of density-functional theory to multi-site…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Ravishankar Sundararaman , T. A. Arias

In this paper, we propose a novel sequential data-driven method for dealing with equilibrium based chemical simulations, which can be seen as a specific machine learning approach called active learning. The underlying idea of our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-26 Mary Savino , Céline Lévy-Leduc , Marc Leconte , Benoit Cochepin

The swift progression of machine learning (ML) has not gone unnoticed in the realm of statistical mechanics. ML techniques have attracted attention by the classical density-functional theory (DFT) community, as they enable discovery of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-15 Antonio Malpica-Morales , Peter Yatsyshin , Miguel A. Duran-Olivencia , Serafim Kalliadasis

One of the potential applications of a quantum computer is solving quantum chemical systems. It is known that one of the fastest ways to obtain somewhat accurate solutions classically is to use approximations of density functional theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Thomas E. Baker , David Poulin

Quantum many-body methods provide a systematic route to computing electronic properties of molecules and materials, but high computational costs restrict their use in large-scale applications. Due to the complexity in many-electron…

An interesting fundamental problem in density-functional theory of electronic structure of matter is to construct the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) potential for a given density. The exact potential can then be used to assess the accuracy of…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2019-05-22 Ashish Kumar , Rabeet Singh , Manoj K. Harbola

We present here a constructive method of Lagrangian approximate control- lability for the Euler equation. We emphasize on different options that could be used for numerical recipes: either, in the case of a bi-dimensionnal fluid, the use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-01 T. Horsin , O. Kavian

Based on recent advancements in using machine learning for classical density functional theory for systems with one-dimensional, planar inhomogeneities, we propose a machine learning model for application in two dimensions (2D) akin to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-22 Felix Glitsch , Jens Weimar , Martin Oettel

We present a brief review of the classical density functional theory of atomic and molecular fluids. We focus on the application of the theory to the determination of the solvation properties of arbitrary molecular solutes in arbitrary…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis

We use machine learning methods to approximate a classical density functional. As a study case, we choose the model problem of a Lennard Jones fluid in one dimension where there is no exact solution available and training data sets must be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-04 Shang-Chun Lin , Martin Oettel

We argue in favour of developing a comprehensive dynamical theory for rationalizing, predicting, designing, and machine learning nonequilibrium phenomena that occur in soft matter. To give guidance for navigating the theoretical and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Daniel de las Heras , Toni Zimmermann , Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

Molecular modeling is an important topic in drug discovery. Decades of research have led to the development of high quality scalable molecular force fields. In this paper, we show that neural networks can be used to train a universal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-20 Ke Liu , Zekun Ni , Zhenyu Zhou , Suocheng Tan , Xun Zou , Haoming Xing , Xiangyan Sun , Qi Han , Junqiu Wu , Jie Fan