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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained immense success in cognitive applications and greatly pushed today's artificial intelligence forward. The biggest challenge in executing DNNs is their extremely data-extensive computations. The…

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The recently developed Deep Potential [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143001, 2018] is a powerful method to represent general inter-atomic potentials using deep neural networks. The success of Deep Potential rests on the proper treatment of locality…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Yixiao Chen , Jiefu Zhang , Weile Jia , Linfeng Zhang , Lin Lin

Material characterization in nano-mechanical tests requires precise interatomic potentials for the computation of atomic energies and forces with near-quantum accuracy. For such purposes, we develop a robust neural-network interatomic…

With rapid progress in deep learning, neural networks have been widely used in scientific research and engineering applications as surrogate models. Despite the great success of neural networks in fitting complex systems, two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yuwen Deng , Wang Kang , Wei W. Xing

The development of machine learning sheds new light on the problem of statistical thermodynamics in multicomponent alloys. However, a data-driven approach to construct the effective Hamiltonian requires sufficiently large data sets, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Xianglin Liu , Jiaxin Zhang , Markus Eisenbach , Yang Wang

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the algorithmic estimation of stochastic entropy production (EP) from trajectory data via machine learning. A crucial element of such algorithms is the identification of a loss function whose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-22 Euijoon Kwon , Yongjoo Baek

Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are crucial for accurately capturing nuclear quantum effects in materials. However, their computational intensity and reliance on multiple software packages often limit their applicability…

Accurate exchange-correlation (XC) potentials for 3-dimensional systems -- via solution of the \emph{inverse} density functional theory (DFT) problem -- are now available to test the quality of DFT approximations. Herein, the \emph{exact}…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Bikash Kanungo , Paul M. Zimmerman , Vikram Gavini

Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone of computational chemistry and materials science, but its computational cost limits its use in large-scale and high-throughput applications. While machine learning has accelerated energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yingdi Jin , Xinming Qin , Ruichen Liu , Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

We present an accurate, efficient and massively parallel finite-element code, DFT-FE, for large-scale ab-initio calculations (reaching $\sim 100,000$ electrons) using Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). DFT-FE is based on a local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Phani Motamarri , Sambit Das , Shiva Rudraraju , Krishnendu Ghosh , Denis Davydov , Vikram Gavini

Methods of computational quantum chemistry provide accurate approximations of molecular properties crucial for computer-aided drug discovery and other areas of chemical science. However, high computational complexity limits the scalability…

Density functional theory (DFT) is widely used to predict chemical properties, but its accuracy is limited by functional approximations and their approximate self-consistent densities. Density-corrected DFT (DC-DFT) is the study of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Hayoung Yu , Suhwan Song , Seungsoo Nam , Kieron Burke , Eunji Sim

We present our latest advancements of machine-learned potentials (MLPs) based on the neuroevolution potential (NEP) framework introduced in [Fan et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 104309 (2021)] and their implementation in the open-source package…

Standard flavors of density-functional theory (DFT) calculations are known to fail in describing anions, due to large self-interaction errors. The problem may be circumvented by using localized basis sets of reduced size, leaving no…

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We present neural networks to generate redshift-space galaxy power spectrum multipoles for multiple tracer and redshift bins simultaneously given a set of input cosmology and galaxy bias parameters. This emulator utilizes a combination of…

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Density functional theory (DFT) remains the most widely used electronic structure method. Although exact in principle, in practice, it relies on approximations to the exchange-correlation (XC) functional, which is known to be a unique…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Vishal Subramanian , Bikash Kanungo , Vikram Gavini

We present a comprehensive and user-friendly framework built upon the pyiron integrated development environment (IDE), enabling researchers to perform the entire Machine Learning Potential (MLP) development cycle consisting of (i) creating…

We present an evaluation of CSP-MACE-{\AA}, a machine learning interatomic potential intended to replace DFT in crystal structure prediction (CSP). We decompose the total energy into separate intramolecular and intermolecular components.…

In recent years, efficient inter-atomic potentials approaching the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been developed using rigorous atomic descriptors satisfying strict invariances, for example, to translation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-18 Xiang-Guo Li , Chongze Hu , Chi Chen , Zhi Deng , Jian Luo , Shyue Ping Ong

Accurate charge densities are essential for reliable electronic structure calculations because they significantly impact predictions of various chemical properties and in particular, according to the Hellmann-Feynman theorem, atomic forces.…

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