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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

The development of reliable and extensible molecular mechanics (MM) force fields -- fast, empirical models characterizing the potential energy surface of molecular systems -- is indispensable for biomolecular simulation and computer-aided…

Machine learning techniques are essential tools to compute efficient, yet accurate, force fields for atomistic simulations. This approach has recently been extended to incorporate quantum computational methods, making use of variational…

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Anseong Park , Jaeyune Ryu , Won Bo Lee

The training set of atomic configurations is key to the performance of any Machine Learning Force Field (MLFF) and, as such, the training set selection determines the applicability of the MLFF model for predictive molecular simulations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Gregory Fonseca , Igor Poltavsky , Valentin Vassilev-Galindo , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulation approaches, such as $\textit{ab initio}$ MD (AIMD) and empirical force field MD (EFFMD), face significant trade-offs between physical accuracy and computational efficiency. This work presents…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-12 Hongyu Yan , Yong Wei , Minghan Chen , Hanning Chen

We introduce a scheme for molecular simulations, the Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics (DeePMD) method, based on a many-body potential and interatomic forces generated by a carefully crafted deep neural network trained with ab initio data.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Han Wang , Roberto Car , Weinan E

Machine Learning (ML)-based force fields are attracting ever-increasing interest due to their capacity to span spatiotemporal scales of classical interatomic potentials at quantum-level accuracy. They can be trained based on high-fidelity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Sebastien Röcken , Julija Zavadlav

Biomolecular thermodynamics and spectroscopy depend on relative conformer energies, local curvatures, and collective dipole fluctuations on the potential-energy surface. Conventional molecular mechanics force fields enable large-scale…

Machine learning force fields show great promise in enabling more accurate molecular dynamics simulations compared to manually derived ones. Much of the progress in recent years was driven by exploiting prior knowledge about physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Andreas Burger , Luca Thiede , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Nandita Vijaykumar

Accurate atomistic biomolecular simulations are vital for disease mechanism understanding, drug discovery, and biomaterial design, but existing simulation methods exhibit significant limitations. Classical force fields are efficient but…

We develop a combined machine learning (ML) and quantum mechanics approach that enables data-efficient reconstruction of flexible molecular force fields from high-level ab initio calculations, through the consideration of fundamental…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Stefan Chmiela , Huziel E. Sauceda , Alexandre Tkatchenko , Klaus-Robert Müller

Universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) enable reactive molecular simulations with near-DFT accuracy, yet applying them efficiently to large, realistic condensed-phase systems remains computationally demanding. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Yu Miyazaki , Atsuhiro Tomita , Akihide Hayashi , So Takamoto , Mizuki Takemoto , Hodaka Mori

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have enabled molecular dynamics at near ab initio accuracy, yet remain limited to energies and forces by construction, leaving electronic observables such as dipole moments and…

The ability to accurately model interatomic interactions in large-scale systems is fundamental to understanding a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena, from drug-protein binding to the behavior of next-generation materials. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-26 Taskin Mehereen , Sourav Saha , Intesar Jawad Jaigirdar , Chanwook Park

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been developed to simulate molecular systems, where an explicit description of changes in the electronic structure is necessary. However, QM/MM MD…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Lennard Böselt , Moritz Thürlemann , Sereina Riniker

This study employed an artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular simulation framework to enable efficient Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. Owing to its modular architecture and high-throughput capabilities, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Cheng Fan , Maodong Li , Sihao Yuan , Zhaoxin Xie , Dechin Chen , Yi Isaac Yang , Yi Qin Gao

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been a cornerstone in computational science, providing powerful insights into structure-property relationships for molecules and materials through first-principles quantum-mechanical (QM) calculations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yicheng Chen , Wenjie Yan , Zhanfeng Wang , Jianming Wu , Xin Xu

Accounting for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) can significantly alter material properties at finite temperatures. Atomic modeling using the path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method can fully account for such effects, but requires…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-21 A. A. Solovykh , N. E. Rybin , I. S. Novikov , A. V. Shapeev

This study explores the use of equivariant quantum neural networks (QNN) for generating molecular force fields, focusing on the rMD17 dataset. We consider a QNN architecture based on previous research and point out shortcomings in the…