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Accurate prediction of surface energies and stabilities is essential for materials design, yet first-principles calculations remain computationally expensive and most existing interatomic potentials are trained only on bulk systems. Here,…

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Creating a single unified interatomic potential capable of attaining ab initio accuracy across all chemistry remains a long-standing challenge in computational chemistry and materials science. This work introduces a training protocol for…

Determination of atomic structures is a key challenge in the fields of computational physics and materials science, as a large variety of mechanical, chemical, electronic, and optical properties depend sensitively on structure. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Sami Kaappa , Estefanía Garijo del Río , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

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

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIP) are a novel in silico approach for molecular property prediction, creating an alternative to disrupt the accuracy/speed trade-off of empirical force fields and density functional theory (DFT).…

The rapid development of universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) has demonstrated the possibility for generalizable learning of the universal potential energy surface. In principle, the accuracy of uMLIPs can be further…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-09 Xu Huang , Bowen Deng , Peichen Zhong , Aaron D. Kaplan , Kristin A. Persson , Gerbrand Ceder

Interatomic potentials are key to uncovering microscopic structure-property relationships, essential for multiscale simulations and high-throughput experiments. For metallic glasses, their disordered atomic structure makes the development…

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…

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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 rapid development of energy storage technology, high-performance solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) have become critical for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. These materials require high ionic conductivity, excellent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-17 Hongwei Du , Jian Hui , Lanting Zhang , Hong Wang

This work demonstrates that fine-tuning transforms foundational machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) to achieve consistent, near-ab initio accuracy across diverse architectures. Benchmarking five leading MLIP frameworks (MACE,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Jonas Hänseroth , Aaron Flötotto , Muhammad Nawaz Qaisrani , Christian Dreßler

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) achieve near ab initio accuracy at a fraction of the cost of quantum-mechanical simulations, yet they remain prone to silent failures on out-of-distribution configurations, making principled…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Olga Zaghen , Maksim Zhdanov , Dario Coscia , David R. Wessels , Erik J. Bekkers

Uncertainty estimations for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are crucial for quantifying model error and identifying informative training samples in active learning strategies. In this study, we evaluate uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Matthias Holzenkamp , Dongyu Lyu , Ulrich Kleinekathöfer , Peter Zaspel

Foundation models of interatomic potentials, so called universal potentials, may require fine-tuning or residual corrections when applied to specific subclasses of materials. In the present work, we demonstrate how such augmentation can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-12 Mads-Peter Verner Christiansen , Bjørk Hammer

The accurate calculation of phonons and vibrational spectra remains a significant challenge, requiring highly precise evaluations of interatomic forces. Traditional methods based on the quantum description of the electronic structure, while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Bowen Han , Yongqiang Cheng

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,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Fei Shuang , Penghua Ying , Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Fengxian Liu , Zheyong Fan , Minqiang Jiang , Poulumi Dey

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

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

The past decade has seen the rapid development of Reinforcement Learning, which acquires impressive performance with numerous training resources. However, one of the greatest challenges in RL is generalization efficiency (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Qi Yang , Peng Yang , Ke Tang

Grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations are essential for screening metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for gas adsorption, yet their accuracy is limited by underlying interatomic potentials. Universal machine-learned interatomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-17 Connor W. Edwards , Fengxu Yang , Konstantin Stracke , Jack D. Evans