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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are inherently limited by the accuracy of the training data, usually consisting of energies and forces obtained from quantum mechanical calculations, such as density functional theory (DFT).…

Emerging machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer a promising solution for large-scale accurate material simulations, but stringent tests related to the description of vibrational dynamics in molecular crystals remain scarce.…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used to model diverse atomistic phenomena, yet parameterizing them to accurately capture solid-state phase transformations remains difficult. We present error metrics and…

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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

We developed a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) for Ge-rich GeSbTe alloys of interest for applications in phase change memories embedded in microcontrollers. The MLIP was generated by fitting with a neural network method a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-16 Omar Abou El Kheir , Dario Baratella , Marco Bernasconi

Coarse-graining (CG) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of larger systems and longer timescales that are otherwise infeasible with atomistic models. Machine learning potentials (MLPs), with their capacity to capture many-body…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Weilong Chen , Franz Görlich , Paul Fuchs , Julija Zavadlav

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) such as neuroevolution potentials (NEP) combine quantum-mechanical accuracy with computational efficiency significantly accelerate atomistic dynamic simulations. Trained by derivative-free…

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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

We designed a procedure to train a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) at benchmark-quality quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) accuracy. To avoid the complexities of high-quality atomic force determination with the stochastic QMC methods,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-22 Adam Hložný , Ján Brndiar , Ye Luo , Ivan Štich

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable large-scale atomistic simulations but remain challenged in describing mixed-valence materials where charge ordering strongly influences thermodynamic stability. Here we investigate the…

All-atom dynamics simulations are an indispensable quantitative tool in physics, chemistry, and materials science, but large systems and long simulation times remain challenging due to the trade-off between computational efficiency and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 Stephen R. Xie , Matthias Rupp , Richard G. Hennig

Methodologies for training machine learning potentials (MLPs) to quantum-mechanical simulation data have recently seen tremendous progress. Experimental data has a very different character than simulated data, and most MLP training…

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Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Dmitry Korogod , Olga Chalykh , Max Hodapp , Nikita Rybin , Ivan S. Novikov , Alexander V. Shapeev

The interaction of condensed phase systems with external electric fields is crucial in myriad processes in nature and technology ranging from the field-directed motion of cells (galvanotaxis), to energy storage and conversion systems…

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Machine learning potentials (MLPs) represent atomic interactions with quantum mechanical accuracy offering an efficient tool for atomistic simulations in many fields of science. However, most MLPs rely on local atomic energies without…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Emir Kocer , Redouan El Haouari , Christoph Dellago , Jörg Behler

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) achieve excellent accuracy when trained on large Density Functional Theory (DFT) data. To be useful in practice, they must often be adapted to target chemistries using small and expensive…

Recently, machine learning potentials (MLP) largely enhances the reliability of molecular dynamics, but its accuracy is limited by the underlying $\textit{ab initio}$ methods. A viable approach to overcome this limitation is to refine the…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have revolutionized computational materials science by bridging the gap between quantum mechanical accuracy and classical simulation efficiency, enabling unprecedented exploration of materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-17 Ardavan Mehdizadeh , Peter Schindler

Highly accurate force fields are a mandatory requirement to generate predictive simulations. In this regard, Machine Learning Force Fields (MLFFs) have emerged as a revolutionary approach in computational chemistry and materials science,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Carlos A. Vital , Román J. Armenta-Rico , Huziel E. Sauceda

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are gaining attention as an alternative to classical force fields (FFs) by using deep learning models trained on density functional theory (DFT) data to improve interatomic potential accuracy. In this…

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