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Quantum mechanical methods like Density Functional Theory (DFT) are used with great success alongside efficient search algorithms for studying kinetics of reactive systems. However, DFT is prohibitively expensive for large scale…

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Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations are being routinely used to identify new material candidates that approach activity near fundamental limits imposed by thermodynamics or scaling relations. DFT calculations have finite…

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The relative energies of different phases or polymorphs of molecular solids can be small, less than a kiloJoule/mol. Reliable description of such energy differences requires high quality treatment of electron correlations, typically beyond…

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Predicting interfacial thermodynamics across molecular and continuum scales remains a central challenge in computational science. Classical density functional theory (cDFT) provides a first-principles route to connect microscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Edoardo Monti , Peter Yatsyshin , Konstantinos Gkagkas , Andrew B. Duncan

Reactive chemistry of molecular hydrogen at surfaces, notably dissociative sticking and hydrogen evolution, plays a crucial role in energy storage and fuel cells. Theoretical studies can help to decipher underlying mechanisms and reaction…

Quantum--Mechanical methods that are both computationally fast and accurate are not yet available for electronic excitations having charge transfer character. In this work, we present a significant step forward towards this goal for those…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michele Pavanello , Troy Van Voorhis , Lucas Visscher , Johannes Neugebauer

Highly accurate force fields are a mandatory requirement to generate predictive simulations. Here we present the path for the construction of machine learned molecular force fields by discussing the hierarchical pathway from generating the…

We employ a descriptor based machine-learning approach to assess the effect of chemical alloying on formation-enthalpy of rare-earth intermetallics. Application of machine-learning approaches in rare-earth intermetallic design have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-07 Prashant Singh , Tyler Del Rose , Guillermo Vazquez , Raymundo Arroyave , Yaroslav Mudryk

Predicting monomer reactivity ratios is crucial for controlling monomer sequence distribution in copolymers and their properties. Traditional experimental methods of determining reactivity ratios are time-consuming and resource-intensive,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Habibollah Safari , Mona Bavarian

We show that a deep-learning neural network potential (DP) based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations can well describe Cu-Zr materials, an example of a binary alloy system that can coexist in several ordered intermetallics and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-29 Christopher M. Andolina , Philip Williamson , Wissam A. Saidi

To date, density functional theory (DFT) is one of the most accurate and yet practical theory to gain insight about materials properties. Although successful, the computational cost is the main hurdle even today. A way out is combining DFT…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-19 Shweta Mehta , Sheena Agarwal , Kavita Joshi

Molecules can form myriad crystalline polymorphs, each with distinct properties affecting their performance across diverse applications, from pharmaceuticals to functional materials and more. Predicting the thermodynamically most stable…

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

The calculation of reactive properties is a challenging task in chemical reaction discovery. Machine learning (ML) methods play an important role in accelerating electronic structure predictions of activation energies and reaction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Joe Gilkes , Mark Storr , Reinhard J. Maurer , Scott Habershon

Quantum embedding methods have recently developed significantly to model large molecular structures. This work proposes a novel wave function theory in density functional theory (WTF-in-DFT) embedding scheme based on pair-coupled cluster…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Rahul Chakraborty , Katharina Boguslawski , Paweł Tecmer

The structure of oxide-supported metal nanoclusters plays an essential role in their sharply enhanced catalytic activity over bulk metals. Simulations provide the atomic-scale resolution needed to understand these systems. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-22 Benjamin X. Shi , David J. Wales , Angelos Michaelides , Chang Woo Myung

Machine-learned potential energy surfaces (PESs) for molecules with more than 10 atoms are typically forced to use lower-level electronic structure methods such as density functional theory and second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Chen Qu , Paul Houston , Riccardo Conte , Apurba Nandi , Joel M. Bowman

This letter presents a novel approach for identifying uncorrelated atomic configurations from extensive data sets with a non-standard neural network workflow known as random network distillation (RND) for training machine-learned…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Jan Finkbeiner , Samuel Tovey , Christian Holm

Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. Here we show that DFT can be formally and practically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

The present work proposes an approach to obtain a basis-set correction based on density-functional theory (DFT) for the computation of molecular properties in wave-function theory (WFT). This approach allows one to accelerate the basis-set…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Diata Traore , Julien Toulouse , Emmanuel Giner